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藍

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇯🇵🇰🇷

蓝

🇨🇳

blue

HSK 10 N1

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lán

ラン

あい

람

Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 監 represents the sound.

Components

艹 grass (top)+ 監 supervise =

藍 blue

艹 Meaning component

cao grass (top)

grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

監 Phonetic component

supervise

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Notes

Historical Evolution

Seal Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

藍

Regular

Modern

Chinese

蓝 / 藍 [Lán]

surname Lan

蓝 / 藍 [lán]

blue; indigo plant

Japanese

藍あい、アイ同音

noun

usually kana dyer's knotweed (Persicaria tinctoria, used to produce indigo dye)
indigo (dye)
indigo (colour)

Example Sentences

Japanese Names

藍あい

Ai female given namesurname

藍あいじ

Aiji unclassified name

藍あお

Ao female given name

藍あおい

Aoi female given name

藍らん

Ran female given namemale given namesurname

藍らんらん

Ranran unclassified name

CHINESE WORDS (139)

蓝色 [lánsè] #1,948

蓝天 [lántiān] #13,804

蓝图 [lántú] #11,416

蔚蓝 [wèilán] #24,808

蓝宝石 [lánbǎoshí] #21,772

甘蓝 [gānlán] #16,926

蓝领 [lánlǐng] #22,336

湛蓝 [zhànlán] #27,975

蓝本 [lánběn] #37,876

蓝皮书 [lánpíshū] #25,230

an official report (e.g. governmental)

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JAPANESE WORDS (84)

藍色 [あいいろ] #17,225

伽藍 [がらん] #36,328

temple (esp. large one)

藍子 [アイゴ] #66,555

mottled spinefoot (Siganus fuscescens)

大伽藍 [だいがらん] #71,717

large temple edifice

青藍 [せいらん] #73,830

藍玉 [あいだま] #79,960

ball of dried, ground, fermented dyer's knotweed leaves

藍染め [あいぞめ] #98,940

濃藍 [こあい] #117,012

甘藍 [かんらん] #118,549

藍鼠 [あいねずみ] #134,590

indigo-tinged grey (gray)

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KOREAN WORDS (1)