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篮球

lán qiú 2–2

basketball

HSK level
HSK 2
HSK 3.0 level 2
Characters
2
篮 · 球
Syllables
2
lán qiú
Frequency
Less common
corpus count 3,596

Part of speech: n

Character by character

  • 篮lán16 strokesHSK 2 traditional 籃basket
  • 球qiú11 strokesHSK 1ball, sphere, globe; round

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 我不打篮球。

    Wǒ bù dǎ lán qiú

    I don't play basketball.

  • 他不打篮球。

    Tā bù dǎ lán qiú

    He doesn't play basketball.

  • 篮球可真是有意思。

    Lán qiú kě zhēn shi yǒu yì si

    Basketball is a lot of fun.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 篮球. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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