IDENTITY
蓝lánblue
HSK 3Top 600
CORE MEANING
blue
- Part of speech
- adjective
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.blueHSK3
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 艹grass radical (cǎo)
- strokes
- 13
- Structure
- top-bottom compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿱艹监
- plants (indigo)
- gives the sound lán
USAGE
Common words
蓝色lánsèblue
蓝天lántiānblue sky
篮球lánqiúbasketball
Graded examples
他喜欢打篮球。Tā xǐhuan dǎ lánqiú.HSK2
He likes playing basketball.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 篮
LEARNING
Memory aid
The indigo plant (艹) watched over (监) in the dye vat — blue. (From 藍.)
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #600
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
- Reviewed by
- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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