蓝
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blue; indigo plant
- HSK 3.0
- Level 2
- Old HSK
- Level 3
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 艸 +10
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 藍
- Common rank
- #571
- Unicode
- U+84DD
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
blue · Heisig RSH #1141
flower + hidden camera
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 蓝
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 蓝山县 | Lanshan, a county in Yongzhou City 永州市[Yong3 zhou1 Shi4], Hunan | |
| 西蓝花 | variant of 西蘭花|西兰花[xi1 lan2 hua1] | |
| 天蓝色 | azure | |
| 蓝金黄 | blue, gold and yellow (BGY), the three methods of manipulation: information control (via m… | |
| 海军蓝 | navy blue | |
| 蓝光光盘 | Blu-ray disk, Sony high definition DVD disk | |
| 蓝山 | see 藍山縣|蓝山县[Lan2 shan1 Xian4] | |
| 蓝马鸡 | (bird species of China) blue eared pheasant (Crossoptilon auritum) | |
| 天蓝 | sky blue | |
| 蓝天 | blue sky | |
| 蓝海 | (neologism) an unexplored, as yet uncontested market (contrasted with 紅海|红海[hong2 hai3]) | |
| 蓝皮书 | an official report (e.g. governmental) | |
| 蓝光 | Blu-ray (disc format) | |
| 灰蓝山雀 | (bird species of China) azure tit (Cyanistes cyanus) | |
| 蓝色 | blue (color) | |
| 蓝田县 | Lantian, a county in Xi'an City 西安市[Xi1 an1 Shi4], Shaanxi | |
| 蓝耳病 | porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS); blue-ear swine fever | |
| 血蓝素 | (biochemistry) hemocyanin | |
| 蓝本 | blueprint; source material on which later works (books, movies etc) are based | |
| 美蓝 | methylene blue |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 监 — compare how they read.