拦 (lán) means Block (stop - hinder). Below are 6 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
他在路边 拦 了一辆出租车。
Tā zài lù biān lán le yí liàng chūzūchē.
He flagged down a taxi at the roadside.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 拦
没有人阻 拦 他离开。
Méiyǒu rén zǔlán tā líkāi.
Nobody stopped him from leaving.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 阻拦
他勇敢地 拦 住了逃跑的歹徒。
Tā yǒnggǎn de lánzhù le táopǎo de dǎitú.
He bravely blocked the fleeing villain.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 歹徒
他执意要去，谁也阻 拦 不住。
Tā zhíyì yào qù, shéi yě zǔlán bu zhù.
He was set on going and nobody could stop him.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 阻拦
两个孩子差点揍起来，被老师 拦 住了。
Liǎng ge háizi chàdiǎn zòu qǐlái, bèi lǎoshī lánzhù le.
The two children nearly came to blows and were stopped by the teacher.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 揍
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Words that contain 拦
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Questions about 拦
How is 拦 used in a sentence?
This page shows 6 sentences using 拦 (lán, "Block (stop - hinder)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 拦 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 拦 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 拦 an HSK word?
Yes — 拦 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 拦?
The dictionary page for 拦 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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