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篮球

lán qiú

HSK 2 · word 823 of 3,000

Meaning

Measure word

个 gè or 只 zhī

Example sentence

他打篮球。

tā dǎ lán qiú

He played basketball.

Characters in 篮球

篮 a basket plus 球 ball. The name is literal, and 排球 and 网球 are built the same way from what the game uses.

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