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蓝

lán

HSK 3 Character Traditional 藍

What 蓝 means

1. blue
2. indigo plant

Other readings

蓝 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• Lánsurname Lan

Example sentences

• 有蓝色的吗？
  Do you have any in blue?
• 我喜欢蓝色。
  I like blue.
• 电脑蓝屏了。
  The computer crashed.
• 天空是蓝色的。
  The sky is blue.
• 她有双蓝眼睛。
  She has blue eyes.
• 大海是蓝色的。
  The sea is blue.

Words starting with 蓝

• 蓝色lán sèblue (color)
• 蓝天lán tiānblue sky
• 蓝图lán túblueprint
• 蓝光Lán guāngBlu-ray (disc format)
• 蓝宝石lán bǎo shísapphire
• 蓝领lán lǐngblue-collar; blue-collar worker
• 蓝本lán běnblueprint; source material on which later works (books, movies etc) are based
• 蓝星Lán xīngthe Blue Planet; planet Earth
• 蓝海lán hǎi(neologism) an unexplored, as yet uncontested market (contrasted with 红海
• 蓝牙Lán yáBluetooth
• 蓝移lán yíblue shift (astronomy)
• 蓝调lán diàoblues (music)
• 蓝巨星lán jù xīngblue giant star
• 蓝皮书lán pí shūan official report (e.g. governmental)
• 蓝筹股lán chóu gǔblue chip stock
• 蓝精灵Lán jīng língthe Smurfs
• 蓝耳病lán ěr bìngporcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS); blue-ear swine fever
• 蓝色剂lán sè jìAgent Blue
• 蓝金黄lán jīn huángblue, gold and yellow (BGY), the three methods of manipulation: information control…
• 蓝光光盘lán guāng guāng pánBlu-ray disk, Sony high definition DVD disk
• 蓝屏死机lán píng sǐ jī(computing) (of an operating system) to crash and display the "blue screen of death"
• 蓝丁胶Lán dīng jiāoBlu-tack (brand)
• 蓝饰带花lán shì dài huāblue lace flower (Trachymene caerulea)
• 蓝马鸡lán mǎ jī(bird species of China) blue eared pheasant (Crossoptilon auritum)

Words containing 蓝

• 蔚蓝wèi lánazure; sky-blue
• 深蓝shēn lándark blue
• 湛蓝zhàn lánazure
• 天蓝色tiān lán sèazure
• 碧蓝bì lándark blue
• 天蓝tiān lánsky blue
• 景泰蓝jǐng tài láncloisonne; cloisonné
• 亮蓝liàng lánbright blue
• 品蓝pǐn lánpinkish blue
• 宝蓝bǎo lánsapphire blue
• 月蓝yuè lánlight blue
• 乌蓝wū lándark blue
• 瓦蓝wǎ lán(usu. of the sky) azure; bright blue
• 美蓝měi lánmethylene blue
• 板蓝根bǎn lán gēnindigo woad root; root of Isatis tinctoria (used in TCM)
• 海军蓝hǎi jūn lánnavy blue
• 血蓝素xuè lán sù(biochemistry) hemocyanin
• 正蓝旗Zhèng lán qíPlain Blue banner or Shuluun Höh khoshuu in Xilingol League 锡林郭勒盟; also written 正兰旗
• 淡蓝色dàn lán sèlight blue
• 甘蓝gān láncabbage; Chinese broccoli; gai larn
• 甘蓝菜gān lán càicabbage
• 野甘蓝yě gān lánEuropean wild cabbage (Brassica oleracea)
• 结球甘蓝jié qiú gān láncabbage
• 甘蓝型油菜gān lán xíng yóu càioilseed rape (Brassica napus)

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.

• 滥lànoverflowing; excessive; indiscriminate
• 篮lánbasket (receptacle); basket (in basketball)
• 尴gānused in 尴尬
• 槛kǎndoor sill; threshold
• 褴lánused in 褴褛

Characters that look like 蓝

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

• 盟méngoath; pledge; union
• 富fùrich; abundant; wealthy
• 裔yì(bound form) descendants; (bound form) of ... ancestry (as in 华裔; (literary) distant lands
• 葛gékudzu (Pueraria lobata); hemp cloth
• 霆tíngclap of thunder
• 蔻kòuused in 豆蔻

Sounds the same

Read lán, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 篮basket (receptacle); basket (in basketball)
• 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