lán

basket

Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
⺮ meaning component

  Meaning component

zhú

  

bamboo

⺮ is a component form of .

监 sound component

  Sound component

jiānjiàn

  

watch carefully

Evolution

篮 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
篮 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
篮 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
篮 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

lán

basket; basket (receptacle); basket (in basketball)

Most common words with 篮
Freq.
Word
Meaning

篮球

basketball

basket (receptacle)

篮板

backboard

投篮

to shoot for the basket (basketball)

男篮

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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