蓝 lán▶ azul

Stroke order

蓝 is written in 13 strokes.

• 蓝

Senses

1. blue
2. indigo plant

Example sentences

• 今天的天空很蓝。Jīntiān de tiānkōng hěn lán.The sky is very blue today.
• 她穿着一件蓝色的衣服。Tā chuānzhe yí jiàn lánsè de yīfu.She is wearing a blue piece of clothing.

Related words

• 颜色color
• 红rojo
• 白blanco
• 黑negro
• 绿verde
• 紫morado, púrpura
• 灰ceniza
• 粉色Rosa
• 色彩color
• 鲜艳Colorido

蓝 is pronounced lán and means “azul”. It belongs to the HSK 3 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 蓝 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.