HSK 6 · Adjectives

蔚蓝 wèilán “azure” in Chinese

Traditional 蔚藍

What 蔚蓝 means

  1. azure
  2. sky blue
  3. sky-blue

How to say 蔚蓝

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale蔚wèi4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale蓝lán2nd tone, rising

蔚蓝 in a sentence

  1. 蔚蓝的天空中飘着几朵白云。

    Wèilán de tiānkōng zhōng piāo zhe jǐ duǒ báiyún.

    A few white clouds drift across the azure sky.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 我们在蔚蓝的大海里游泳。

    Wǒmen zài wèilán de dàhǎi lǐ yóuyǒng.

    We swam in the deep blue sea.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 蔚蓝 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 蔚 (wèi) with each of its parts in a different colour
蔚wèiArtemisia japonica
  • 艹grass form of 艸 · cǎoMeaning part
  • 尉officer · wèiSound part

艹 hints at the meaning (grass); 尉 (wèi) hints at the sound. Compare it with wèi.

The character 蓝 (lán) with each of its parts in a different colour
蓝lánblue
  • 艹grass form of 艸 · cǎoMeaning part
  • 监to supervise · jiānSound part

艹 hints at the meaning (grass); 监 (jiān) hints at the sound. Compare it with lán.

How to write 蔚蓝

蔚 14 strokes · 蓝 13 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

蔚蓝 (wèilán) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 蔚蓝 (wèilán). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 蔚蓝

Words with 蓝

蓝lán · blue

More words: Adjectives

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FAQs

蔚蓝 (wèilán) means “azure” or “sky blue”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it wèilán: wèi with a 4th tone, then lán with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 蔚蓝 is written 蔚藍. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type weilan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 蔚蓝 from the suggestions. Typing weilan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
蔚蓝 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.