lán
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 a full-length formal gown (old)
  2. 2 horizontal seam or border band on a traditional robe

Examples

Táng Sòng wénrén chuān lán shān.
Tang and Song scholars wore a full-length lán-style gown.
Zhè jiàn gǔ páo xiàbǎi yǒu xiù lán.
There is an embroidered border band on the hem of this old robe.

Tips

history
A 襕衫 was the standard scholar's robe from the Tang dynasty onward, a one-piece gown with a sewn-on horizontal panel at the knees. The word is archaic now and mostly appears in costume history and period drama.

Components

radical
clothing
The clothing radical (left-side form of ) marks this as a garment word, fitting, since the character names a kind of robe.
phonetic
lán
railing; barrier
supplies the sound lán and a faint sense of a 'bordering band', echoing the seam that defines the garment.

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Stroke Order

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