栏目
lán mù · HSK 6
regular column or segment
📰📺 栏 fence/railing + 目 eye/item = a fenced-off section, a regular column
A railing (栏) marks off a dedicated item (目) — like a boxed-off section in a newspaper or a named segment in a TV schedule. Each 栏目 is its own recurring slot.
栏 — wood radical 木 + 兰 (lán, phonetic)
A semantic-phonetic compound: 木 ('wood') signals the meaning, while 兰 (lán) supplies the sound. Originally written 欄 in traditional form, it referred to wooden railings or fences, and by extension came to mean a column or bordered section, as in a newspaper column.