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榄

lǎn

Character Traditional 欖

What 榄 means

1. bound formolive

Example sentences

• 他很擅长橄榄球。
  Tā hěn shàncháng gǎnlǎnqiú.
  He is good at rugby.
• 橄榄球英语怎么说？
  Gǎnlǎnqiú yīngyǔ zěnme shuō?
  How do you say "rugby" in English?
• 橄榄球英语怎幺说？
  How do you say "rugby" in English?
• 我们要订18吨橄榄油。
  Wǒmen yào dìng 18 dūn gǎnlǎnyóu.
  We'd like to order 18 tonnes of olive oil.
• 油是从橄榄中提炼出来的。
  Yóu shì cóng gǎnlǎn zhōng tíliàn chūlái de.
  Oil is extracted from olives.
• 他曾是个英式橄榄球运动员。
  He was a rugby player.

Words starting with 榄

• 榄角lǎn jiǎoblack olive (Canarium tramdenum)

Words containing 榄

• 橄榄树gǎn lǎn shùolive tree
• 橄榄gǎn lǎnChinese olive; olive
• 橄榄球gǎn lǎn qiúfootball played with oval-shaped ball (rugby, American football, Australian rules etc)
• 橄榄油gǎn lǎn yóuolive oil
• 乌榄wū lǎnblack olive (Canarium tramdenum)
• 山榄科shān lǎn kēSapotaceae (botany)
• 橄榄山gǎn lǎn shānMount of Olives (in the Christian passion story)
• 橄榄岩gǎn lǎn yánperidotite (geology)
• 橄榄石gǎn lǎn shíolivine (rock-forming mineral magnesium-iron silicate (Mg,Fe)2SiO4); peridot
• 橄榄绿gǎn lǎn lǜolive-green (color)
• 油橄榄yóu gǎn lǎnolive (Olea europaea)
• 原生橄榄油yuán shēng gǎn lǎn yóuvirgin olive oil
• 澳式橄榄球Ào shì gǎn lǎn qiúAustralian rules football; Aussie rules
• 美式橄榄球Měi shì gǎn lǎn qiúAmerican football
• 英式橄榄球Yīng shì gǎn lǎn qiúrugby
• 橄榄枝gǎn lǎn zhīolive branch; symbol of peace

Characters built on 览

These share the phonetic component 览 (lǎn), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 缆lǎncable; hawser; to moor
• 揽lǎnto monopolize; to seize; to take into one's arms; to embrace; to fasten (with a rope etc)

Characters that look like 榄

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 援yuánto help; to assist; to aid
• 模móto imitate; model; norm
• 缓huǎnslow; unhurried; sluggish
• 缆lǎncable; hawser; to moor
• 媛yuánused in 婵媛
• 觎yúto desire passionately

Sounds the same

Read lǎn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 懒lazy
• 览to look at; to view; to read
• 揽to monopolize; to seize; to take into one's arms; to embrace; to fasten (with a rope etc)
• 缆cable; hawser; to moor
• 𡒄disappointed
• 漤to soak (fruits) in hot water or limewater to remove astringent taste…
• 罱a kind of tool used to dredge up fish, water plants or river mud, consisting of a net…
• 灠variant of 漤
• 㨫variant of 擥
• 孄old variant of 懒
• 孏old variant of 懒
• 擥variant of 揽