層 (céng)
Layer; floor/story (of a building); measure word for layers
How 層 is written
- Strokes
- 15
- Radical
- 尸 — corpse
- Traditional
- 層
- Simplified
- 层
Common words using 層
- 層次 céngcì
- arrangement of ideas; administrative level; level
- 上層 shàngcéng
- upper layer
- 下層 xiàcéng
- underlayer; lower class; lower strata
- 中層 zhōngcéng
- middle-ranking
- 內層 nèicéng
- internal layer
- 分層 fēncéng
- lamination; layering; stratification
- 單層 dāncéng
- single layer; single story; single deck
- 基層 jīcéng
- basic level; grass-roots unit; basement layer
- 外層 wàicéng
- outer layer; outer shell
- 大氣層 dàqìcéng
- atmosphere
- 夾層 jiācéng
- interval between two layers; double-layered; mezzanine
- 層出不窮 céngchūbùqióng
- more and more emerge; innumerable succession; breeding like flies (idiom)
層 in a sentence
我家住在這棟大樓的第五層。
Wǒ jiā zhù zài zhè dòng dàlóu de dì wǔ céng.
“My family lives on the fifth floor of this building.”
How common is 層?
層 is the 698th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 82.7% of all running text.
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