lán
basket
Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and 監 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 籃
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
basketball | ||
basket (receptacle) | ||
backboard | ||
to shoot for the basket (basketball) | ||
men's basketball |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*k.rˤam | lam | lán | basket |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 10.5558% of movies
1560th most common character in movies
2357th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 20 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7C43 |
Shuowen | “籃，大篝也。从竹，監聲。，古文籃如此。” |
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