Chinese symbol for “backboard”
篮板
lán bǎn
Traditional: 籃板
backboard
The closest CC-CEDICT match for backboard is 篮板 (lán bǎn), defined as: backboard.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “backboard”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 篮板.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 篮球 (籃球) | lán qiú | basketball; 个 (gè),只 (zhī) |
| 摇篮 (搖籃) | yáo lán | cradle (for a baby); (fig.) cradle; birthplace (of a civilization, movement etc) |
| 篮子 (籃子) | lán zi | basket; 只 (zhī) |
| 男篮 (男籃) | nán lán | men's basketball; men's basketball team |
| 投篮 (投籃) | tóu lán | (basketball) to shoot for the basket |
| 老板 | lǎo bǎn | variant of 老板 (lǎo bǎn) |
| 地板 | dì bǎn | floor |
| 板块 (板塊) | bǎn kuài | slab; (geology) tectonic plate |
See also: Japanese symbol for “backboard”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.