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The character 镧, traditional form 鑭, is a modern coinage for the element lanthanum. The traditional structure pairs the metal radical 金 on the left, a standard way to denote metallic elements in Chinese, with the phonetic component 闌 (lán) on the right, which supplies the sound by mimicking the first syllable of 'lanthanum'. The simplified version replaces these with 钅 and 阑, reducing strokes while retaining the pronunciation.
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