灿烂燦爛 in English

Character breakdown

• 灿燦 càn glorious
• 烂爛 làn soft

How it used to be written

灿

These are the forms of 燦, the traditional character: 灿 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

• Small seal script

烂

These are the forms of 爛, the traditional character: 烂 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

• Small seal script
• Small seal script

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).