lǎn
noun #37,555

Meanings

  1. 1 olive (bound form, used in compounds)

Characters

Examples

Guǎngdōng rén ài chī gǎnlǎn.
Cantonese people love eating Chinese olives.
Tā zài shù xià jiǎnle jǐ kē lǎnrén.
He picked up a few olive kernels under the tree.

Tips

usage
rarely stands alone — it's a bound morpheme appearing mainly in 橄榄 (gǎnlǎn, 'olive'), (lǎnrén, 'olive kernel/Indian almond'), (lǎnxiāng, olive incense), and (qīnglǎn, 'green Chinese olive'). The 'olive branch' diplomatic image in Chinese is 橄榄枝 (gǎnlǎnzhī).
memory
Radical (tree) on the left flags it as a kind of tree/fruit; the right side gives the sound lǎn.

Stroke Order

lǎn