篮
球

Basketball in Chinese: 篮球 (lán qiú)

lán qiú

basketball

HSK 3.0 Level 2Traditional: 籃球1 example sentence

Definitions

  1. 1basketball

Stroke order

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篮
球

Zhuyin

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ㄌㄢˊ

lán

ㄌ/ lㄢ/ anˊ/ second tone

ㄑㄧㄡˊ

qiú

ㄑ/ qㄧ/ iㄡ/ ouˊ/ second tone

Simplified & traditional

篮球

Simplified

籃球

Traditional

Example sentences

See 篮球 used in real sentences with pinyin and English translations.

  • 弟弟每天都打篮球。

    dì di měi tiān dōu dǎ lán qiú。

    My younger brother plays basketball every day.

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Related words

球

qiú

ball

地球

dì qiú

the earth

网球

wǎng qiú

tennis

排球

pái qiú

volleyball

球迷

qiú mí

fan (ball sports)

打球

dǎ qiú

to play ball

球场

qiú chǎng

stadium

球队

qiú duì

sports team (basketball, soccer, football etc)

球鞋

qiú xié

athletic shoes

全球

quán qiú

entire

足球

zú qiú

soccer ball

气球

qì qiú

balloon

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