orchid; elegant, graceful
| 里奧格蘭德 lǐ ào gé lán dé | Rio Grande (Brasil) |
| 金蘭 jīn lán | profound friendship; sworn brotherhood |
| 金蘭之交 jīn lán zhī jiāo | intimate friendship (idiom) |
| 金蘭譜 jīn lán pǔ | lit. directory of golden orchids; fig. genealogical record (esp. exchanged between sworn brothers) |
| 鈴蘭 líng lán | lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis) |
| 錫蘭 xī lán | Ceylon (former name of Sri Lanka) |
| 阿斯蘭 ā sī lán | Aslan (from the Narnia chronicles) |
| 阿特蘭蒂斯 ā tè lán dì sī | Atlantis |
| 阿蘭 ā lán | Alan, Allen, Allan, Alain etc (name); A-lan (Chinese female name) |
| 阿蘭文 ā lán wén | Aramaic |
| 阿蘭若 ā lán rě | Buddhist temple (transliteration of Sanskrit "Aranyakah") |
| 雙蕊蘭 shuāng ruǐ lán | double-stamen orchid (Diplandrorchis sinica S.C. Chen), an endangered species |
| 雪佛蘭 xuě fó lán | Chevrolet |
| 雪蘭莪 xuě lán é | Selangor (Malaysia) |
| 革蘭氏 gé lán shì | Mr Gram; Dr. Hans Christian Jaochim Gram (1953-1938), Danish doctor and inventor of the Gram stain 革蘭氏染色法|革兰氏染色法 |
| 革蘭氏染色法 gé lán shì rǎn sè fǎ | Gram stain (used to distinguished two different kinds of bacteria) |
| 革蘭氏陰性 gé lán shì yīn xìng | Gram negative (bacteria that do not retain Gram stain, often the more dangerous kind) |
| 革蘭陽 gé lán yáng | Gram-positive (bacteria) |
| 革蘭陽性 gé lán yáng xìng | Gram-positive (bacteria) |
| 香子蘭 xiāng zǐ lán | vanilla; Vanilla planifolia |
| 香草蘭 xiāng cǎo lán | vanilla (Vanilla planifolia) |
| 馬蘭 mǎ lán | Malan military base and atomic test site in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州[Ba1 yin1 guo1 leng2 Meng3 gu3 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Xinjiang |
| 馬蘭基地 mǎ lán jī dì | Malan military base and atomic test site in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州[Ba1 yin1 guo1 leng2 Meng3 gu3 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Xinjiang |
| 馬蘭花 mǎ lán huā | iris; Iris tectorum |
| 馬里蘭 mǎ lǐ lán | Maryland, US state |