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兰 Lan — a rarer surname
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| Pinyin | Lan |
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| Strokes | 5 |
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| Commonness | outside the top 100 |
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| Type | single-character |
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Where the surname comes from
A surname meaning 'orchid', a flower of elegance in Chinese culture.
What the character means
The orchid — quiet elegance and a reputation that carries.
Why it scores this way
Easy to say96
Reads the way it looks for an English speaker — no sounds English doesn't have.
Recognised in China45
Outside the top 100 — distinctive, but some people will ask you to repeat or write it.
Easy to write95
5 strokes — one of the simpler surnames to write and sign.
People who carried this name
- Lan Xiaolong — TV screenwriter (b.1969), creator of the hit series Soldiers' Sortie.
- Lan Han — Lan Han was an emperor of the Later Yan dynasty during the Sixteen Kingdoms period, ruling briefly after killing Murong Bao.
- Lan Mao — Lan Mao was a Ming dynasty pharmacologist and physician, known for authoring the herbal text 'Diannan Bencao'.
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