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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
lán - basket (receptacle)
- basket (in basketball)

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - 5,662 5,089 6,860

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

Semantic:

Hint:

Bamboo

Other Words Containing

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
篮球 - 2 3,033 4,157 3,457
- - 5,662 5,089 6,860
篮子 - - 9,056 24,090 20,795
投篮 - - 9,691 10,025 18,138
摇篮 - 8 10,790 19,173 18,022
篮球队 - - 12,427 29,721 31,426
扣篮 - - 18,186 16,785 19,203
篮球场 - - 19,062 23,867 14,697
摇篮曲 - - 19,459 70,342 41,728
篮筐 - - 19,832 - -
篮板 - - 20,402 5,660 20,383
篮板球 - - 28,734 19,184 65,664
竹篮 - - 44,554 57,888 68,137
男篮 - - 64,120 7,027 19,786
女篮 - - 65,909 12,715 33,828