The word "流岚" is formed by combining the character "流", meaning "flow", which is a phonetic-semantic compound consisting of the water radical "氵" indicating its relation to liquid movement and a phonetic component "㐬", with the character "岚", meaning "mountain mist", which is a compound of the mountain radical "山" and the wind radical "风" to depict haze or mist associated with mountains. Together, these characters create a literal meaning of "flowing mist" or "drifting haze".