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
蓝图
lántú
blueprint; plan
Characters in this word
图 tú
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 囗 — enclosure
- Made of
- 囗 enclosure 冬 winter, 11th lunar month
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 城市更新不能停留在漂亮的蓝图上，还必须回应居民的真实需求。 Chéngshì gēngxīn bù néng tíngliú zài piàoliang de lántú shàng, hái bìxū huíyìng jūmín de zhēnshí xūqiú. Urban renewal cannot remain on a beautiful blueprint; it must also respond to residents' real needs.
- 设计师把新公园的蓝图画在了大纸上。 Shèjìshī bǎ xīn gōngyuán de lántú huà zài le dà zhǐ shang. The designer drew the blueprint of the new park on a large sheet of paper.
- 他们一起讨论未来五年的发展蓝图。 Tāmen yìqǐ tǎolùn wèilái wǔ nián de fāzhǎn lántú. Together they discussed the blueprint for development over the next five years.