Chinese symbol for “basketball”
篮球
lán qiú
Traditional: 籃球
basketball; 个 (gè),只 (zhī)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for basketball is 篮球 (lán qiú), defined as: basketball; 个 (gè),只 (zhī).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 篮球.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 篮板 (籃板) | lán bǎn | backboard |
| 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 |
| 全球 | quán qiú | the whole world; worldwide; global |
| 足球 | zú qiú | soccer; football; a soccer ball; a football |
| 地球 | dì qiú | the earth |
See also: Japanese symbol for “basketball”.
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.