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Mythic Mandarin

投篮 (tóu lán): meaning and stroke order

投篮 (tóu lán) means to shoot for the basket (basketball).

投篮

Simplified
投篮
Traditional
投籃
Pinyin
tóu lán

Stroke order of 投篮

投

  • tóu to throw (sth in a specific direction: ball, javelin, grenade etc); to cast (a ballot)
  • 7 strokes

Stroke by stroke

篮

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

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 投篮

  1. tóu lán Traditional 投籃
    • to shoot for the basket (basketball)

Radicals of the characters

投
Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 7 strokes · 扌 on the left, 殳 on the right
篮
Radical 竹 (Kangxi radical 118) · 16 strokes · 𥫗 on top, 监 below

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.

投篮 in our stories

Preview version — Chinese review in progress.

  • 没想到，这个城里来的老师投篮竟然比他们都准，孩子们一下子围了过来。

    méi xiǎngdào zhè gè chéngli lái de lǎoshī tóulán jìngrán bǐ tāmen dōu zhǔn háizimen yíxiàzi wéi le guòlai

    To their surprise, this teacher from the city was a better shot than all of them, and the children instantly crowded round.

    From the story English on the basketball court HSK 5

Stories using 投篮

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).