Basketball in Chinese (Mandarin): 篮球 (lánqiú)
篮球
lánqiú
basketball
- Simplified
- 篮球
- Traditional
- 籃球
- Pinyin
- lánqiú
- Typed as
- lanqiu
Use it in a sentence
篮球要投进篮筐里。
籃球要投進籃筐裡。
The basketball has to go into the hoop.
The characters in 篮球
篮 / 籃
Basket. 竹 (bamboo) is on top.
16 strokes
球
Ball.
11 strokes
篮球 is a "basket ball". Playing basketball is 打篮球 (dǎ lánqiú).
More examples with 篮球
我们去打篮球吧。
我們去打籃球吧。
Wǒmen qù dǎ lánqiú ba.
Let's go play basketball.
篮球是橙色的。
籃球是橙色的。
Lánqiú shì chéngsè de.
A basketball is orange.
How to write 篮球 in Chinese
Each box adds one stroke, in red. Write them in this order.
篮 16 strokes
球 11 strokes
In Traditional characters:
籃 20 strokes
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