蓝 lán
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 艹 — grass, weed, plant, herb
- Made of
- 艹 grass, weed, plant, herb 监 to supervise, to direct, to control
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
蓝色
lánsè
blue color
Characters in this word
色 sè
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 色 — color, tint, hue, shade
- Made of
- ⺈ knife 巴 to cling
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 我爱蓝色。 Wǒ ài lánsè. I love the color blue.
- 蓝色很好看。 Lánsè hěn hǎokàn. Blue looks very nice.
- 这是蓝色。 Zhè shì lánsè. This is blue.