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蓝
藍
lán
1.
blue
2.
indigo plant
HSK 3
Very Common • Top 2%
Character Breakdown (Single character)
Compound Words (20)
品蓝
pǐnlán
pinkish blue
深蓝
shēnlán
dark blue
蓝鹇
lánxián
(Chinese bird species) Swinhoe's pheasant (Lophura swinhoii)
蓝色
lánsè
blue (color)
靛蓝
diànlán
indigo (dye)
芥蓝
gàilán
Chinese broccoli
蓝调
lándiào
blues (music)
蓝鹀
lánwú
(Chinese bird species) slaty bunting (Emberiza siemsseni)
蓝移
lányí
blue shift (in the Doppler effect)
蓝图
lántú
blueprint
宝蓝
bǎolán
sapphire blue
乌蓝
wūlán
dark blue
菘蓝
sōnglán
Isatis tinctoria (woad, a brassica producing blue dye)
苤蓝
piělan
Brassica oleracea
蓝莓
lánméi
blueberry
蓝藻
lánzǎo
cyanobacteria (blue-green algae)
蓝领
lánlǐng
blue collar
蓝鲸
lánjīng
blue whale
月蓝
yuèlán
light blue
湛蓝
zhànlán
azure
Example Sentences (1)
他今天穿蓝西服，看上去像40多岁，还是穿运动服让他更年轻。
Tā jīn tiān chuān lán xī fú, kàn shàng qù xiàng sì shí duō suì, hái shì chuān yùn dòng fú ràng tā gèng nián qīng.
He's wearing a blue suit today; he looks in his forties; wearing sportswear makes him look younger.
Text 2
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Metadata
- Category
- Chinese
- HSK Character Level
- 3
- Character Frequency Rank
- 1,189
- Word Frequency Rank
- 1,349 of 84,292