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篮

lán

HSK 2 Character Traditional 籃

What 篮 means

1. basket (receptacle)
2. basket (in basketball)

Example sentences

• 他打篮球。
  He played basketball.
• 我不打篮球。
  I don't play basketball.
• 他不打篮球。
  He doesn't play basketball.
• 我喜欢打篮球。
  I like to play basketball.
• 打篮球很有趣。
  Basketball is very fun to play.
• 鸡蛋在篮子里。
  The eggs are in the basket.

Words starting with 篮

• 篮球lán qiúbasketball
• 篮子lán zibasket
• 篮球场lán qiú chǎngbasketball court
• 篮板lán bǎnbackboard
• 篮球队lán qiú duìbasketball team
• 篮圈lán quān(basketball) hoop; ring
• 篮板球lán bǎn qiúrebound (basketball)
• 篮网球lán wǎng qiúnetball
• 篮筐lán kuāngbasket

Words containing 篮

• 摇篮yáo láncradle (for a baby); (fig.) cradle; birthplace (of a civilization, movement etc)
• 投篮tóu lán(basketball) to shoot for the basket
• 竹篮zhú lánwicker basket
• 女篮nǚ lánwomen's basketball; women's basketball team
• 男篮nán lánmen's basketball; men's basketball team
• 上篮shàng lán(basketball) layup
• 扣篮kòu lánslam dunk
• 提篮tí lána basket
• 灌篮guàn lánslam dunk
• 车篮chē lánbicycle basket
• 投篮机tóu lán jīarcade basketball machine; miniature hoops
• 提篮儿tí lán ra basket
• 摇篮曲yáo lán qǔlullaby
• 美职篮Měi Zhí LánNational Basketball Association (NBA)
• 菜篮子cài lán zivegetable or food basket; (fig.) food supply
• 男子篮球nán zǐ lán qiúmen's basketball
• 吊篮diào lánhanging basket (for flowers); gondola (of cable car)
• 竹篮打水zhú lán dǎ shuǐusing a wicker basket to draw water (idiom); wasted effort
• 捡到篮里就是菜jiǎn dào lán lǐ jiù shì càiall is grist that comes to the mill (idiom)
• 竹篮打水，一场空zhú lán dǎ shuǐ , yī cháng kōngusing a wicker basket to draw water (idiom); wasted effort

Characters built on 监

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

• 蓝lánblue; indigo plant
• 滥lànoverflowing; excessive; indiscriminate
• 尴gānused in 尴尬
• 槛kǎndoor sill; threshold
• 褴lánused in 褴褛

Characters that look like 篮

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

• 霍huò(literary) suddenly
• 鲨shāshark
• 霞xiárose-tinted sky or clouds at sunrise or sunset
• 簇cù(bound form) to cluster; to pile up; cluster; pile…
• 箴zhēnto warn; to admonish; variant of 针
• 篪chíbamboo flute with 7 or 8 holes

Sounds the same

Read lán, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 蓝blue; indigo plant
• 拦to block sb's path; to obstruct; to flag down (a taxi)
• 栏fence; railing; hurdle
• 婪avaricious
• 兰orchid (兰花 Cymbidium goeringii); fragrant thoroughwort (兰草 Eupatorium fortunei)…
• 岚(bound form) mountain mist
• 澜swelling water
• 阑railing; balustrade; door-screen
• 斓used in 斑斓
• 镧lanthanum (chemistry)
• 褴used in 褴褛
• 谰to make a false charge