牆 (qiáng)
wall
How 牆 is written
- Strokes
- 17
- Radical
- 爿 — split wood
- Traditional
- 牆
- Simplified
- 墙
Common words using 牆
- 佛跳牆 fótiàoqiáng
- lit. Buddha jumps over the wall, name for a Chinese dish that uses many non-vegetarian ingredients
- 圍牆 wéiqiáng
- enclosure; CL:道[dao4]
- 城牆 chéngqiáng
- city wall
- 外牆 wàiqiáng
- facade; external wall
- 爬牆 páqiáng
- wall climbing
- 牆壁 qiángbì
- wall
- 牆紙 qiángzhǐ
- wallpaper
- 牆角 qiángjiǎo
- corner (junction of two walls)
- 翻牆 fānqiáng
- lit. to climb over the wall; fig. to breach the Great Firewall of China
- 哭牆 kūqiáng
- Wailing Wall, or Western Wall (Jerusalem)
- 拆東牆補西牆 chāidōngqiángbǔxīqiáng
- lit. pull down the east wall to repair the west wall (idiom); fig. temporary expedient; Rob Peter to pay Paul
- 挖牆腳 wāqiángjiǎo
- to undermine; to let someone down; to seduce someone away from something
牆 in a sentence
牆上掛著一幅很漂亮的畫。
Qiáng shàng guàzhe yì fú hěn piàoliang de huà.
“There is a beautiful painting hanging on the wall.”
How common is 牆?
牆 is the 1,210th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 92% of all running text.
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