lán

basket

Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
⺮ meaning component

  Meaning component

zhú

  

bamboo

⺮ is a component form of .

監 sound component

  Sound component

jiānjiàn

  

watch carefully

Evolution

籃 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
籃 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
籃 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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lán

basket; basket (receptacle); basket (in basketball)

Most common words with 籃
Freq.
Word
Meaning

篮球

basketball

basket (receptacle)

篮板

backboard

投篮

to shoot for the basket (basketball)

男篮

men's basketball