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蓝

藍
lán
adjective HSK 2 #1,674

Meanings

  1. 1 blue

Characters

蓝
lán
blue

Examples

天很蓝。
Tiān hěn lán.
The sky is very blue.
她穿了一件蓝衣服。
Tā chuān le yí jiàn lán yīfu.
She wore a blue outfit.

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history
The character 蓝 has the grass radical (艹) because the original blue dye came from the indigo plant (蓝草). The idiom 青出于蓝而胜于蓝 means "the student surpasses the teacher" — blue dye extracted from the indigo plant is bluer than the plant itself.

Stroke Order

蓝 lán