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蓝

lán

blue, indigo plant

Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 监 represents the sound. Simplified form of 藍.

Components
艹 meaning component

艹  Meaning component

cao, cǎo

  

grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

监 sound component

监  Sound component

jiān, jiàn

  

watch carefully

Evolution

蓝 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
蓝 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
蓝 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
蓝 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

蓝 (藍) 

lán

blue; indigo plant; surname

蓝 (藍) 

Lán

surname Lan

Most common words with 蓝
Freq.
Word
Meaning

蓝

blue

蓝色

blue (color)

蓝天

blue sky

蓝图

blueprint

蔚蓝

azure

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[N-k.]rˤam

lam

lán

indigo


Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 26.9101% of movies

1167th most common character in movies

1190th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Traditional

藍

Unicode

U+84DD


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