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Mythic Mandarin

篮球 (lán qiú): meaning and stroke order

篮球 (lán qiú) means basketball, 个只.

篮球

Simplified
篮球
Traditional
籃球
Pinyin
lán qiú

Stroke order of 篮球

篮

  • lán basket (receptacle); basket (in basketball)
  • 16 strokes
  • Traditional form: 籃

Stroke by stroke

球

  • qiú ball used for playing games (variant of 球[qiu2])
  • qiú ball; sphere
  • 11 strokes
  • Traditional form: 毬

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 篮球

  1. lán qiú Traditional 籃球
    • basketball
    • CL:個|个[ge4],隻|只[zhi1]

Radicals of the characters

篮
Radical 竹 (Kangxi radical 118) · 16 strokes · 𥫗 on top, 监 below
球
Radical 玉 (Kangxi radical 96) · 11 strokes · 𤣩 on the left, 求 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

篮球 in our stories

Preview version — Chinese review in progress.

  • 下课以后，她在操场上看见几个男孩在抢一个旧篮球，就走过去跟他们一起打。

    xiàkè yǐhòu tā zài cāochǎng shàng kànjiàn jǐ gè nánhái zài qiǎng yí gè jiù lánqiú jiù zǒu guòqu gēn tāmen yìqǐ dǎ

    After class she saw some boys fighting over an old basketball in the playground, so she went over and joined in.

    From the story English on the basketball court HSK 5

Stories using 篮球

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).