lán
basket
Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and 监 represents the sound. Simplified form of 籃.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernMost common words with 篮
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
basketball | ||
basket (receptacle) | ||
backboard | ||
to shoot for the basket (basketball) | ||
men's basketball |
Statistics
HSK level 2
Appears in 10.5558% of movies
1560th most common character in movies
2357th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+7BEE |
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