筑 (zhù): short name for Guiyang 貴陽|贵阳, five-string lute
筑 (zhù) is a Chinese character meaning “short name for guiyang 貴陽|贵阳.” Classified as HSK Level 5 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of ⺮ (structural) and 巩 (structural). It ranks #1128 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 筑 a strong 巩 bamboo ⺮ building; ⺮ also provides the pronunciation. Its radical form 竹 (bamboo) appears in many related characters such as 笑 (xiào, to laugh), 第 (dì, (prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 第六 "sixth")), 等 (děng, to wait for).
Definitions
- short name for Guiyang 貴陽|贵阳
- five-string lute
Etymology & Origin
ideographicA strong 巩 bamboo ⺮ building; ⺮ also provides the pronunciation
Decomposition: ⿱⺮巩 (layout: top-bottom)
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 筑
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 建筑师noun | jiàn zhù shī | architect |
| 筑巢verb | zhù cháo | to nest |
| 建筑学noun | jiàn zhù xué | architectural |
| 构筑verb | gòu zhù | to build |
| 建筑业noun | jiàn zhù yè | building industry |
| 建筑群noun | jiàn zhù qún | building complex |
| 债台高筑phrase | zhài tái gāo zhù | lit. build a high desk of debt (idiom) |
| 修筑verb | xiū zhù | to build |
| 上层建筑noun | shàng céng jiàn zhù | superstructure |
| 浇筑verb | jiāo zhù | to pour (concrete etc) |
| 建筑工人 | jiàn zhù gōng rén | construction worker |
| 高层建筑 | gāo céng jiàn zhù | high-rise building |
| 筑室道谋 | zhù shì dào móu | lit. ask passers-by how to build one's house (idiom) |
| 筑城verb | zhù chéng | fortification |
| 筑波proper-noun | zhù bō | Tsukuba (city in Japan) |
筑 appears in 20 compound words: 25 as the first character, 45 as the last, and 30 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 筑 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (2)
Example Sentences
工人们正在筑路，预计下个月就能完工。
Gōngrénmen zhèngzài zhùlù, yùjì xià gè yuè jiù néng wángōng.
The workers are building the road and expect to finish next month.
筑间“新菜单”降价! 网热议“肉盘份量”疑...
zhù jiān xīn cài dān jiàng jià ! wǎng rè yì ròu pán fèn liàng yí . . .
Chikuma "new menu" price reduction! The Internet is hotly discussing the "meat plate size" suspicion...
美国运通将设新总部 曼哈顿世贸建筑群最后一块拼图补足
měi guó yùn tōng jiāng shè xīn zǒng bù 曼 hā dùn shì mào jiàn zhù qún zuì hòu yī kuài pīn tú bǔ zú
American Express will set up a new headquarters The last piece of the puzzle in the World Trade Center complex in Manhattan is completed
中国建筑兴业(00830)曾跌8% 料去年少赚逾...
zhōng guó jiàn zhù xīng yè ( 0 0 8 3 0 ) céng diē 8 liào qù nián shǎo zhuàn yú . . .
China State Construction Industry (00830) fell 8% and is expected to earn more than last year...
...盘工人晕倒昏迷送院 事前疑行多层楼梯搬建筑材料
. . . pán gōng rén yūn dǎo hūn mí sòng yuàn shì qián yí háng duō céng lóu tī bān jiàn zhù cái liào
... The plate worker fainted and was sent to the hospital in a coma, and it was suspected that he would move building materials on multiple floors of stairs beforehand
用坚守筑牢金城平安防线 兰州公安交管部门多举措守...
yòng jiān shǒu zhù láo jīn chéng píng ān fáng xiàn lán zhōu gōng ān jiāo guǎn bù mén duō jǔ cuò shǒu . . .
Build a safe defense for the Golden City with perseverance Lanzhou Public Security Traffic Control Departmen...
建筑物在地震中摇晃。
Jiànzhùwù zài dìzhèn zhōng yáohuàng.
The buildings shook in the earthquake.
警方将催泪弹投掷到了建筑中。
Jǐngfāng jiāng cuīlèidàn tóuzhì dào le jiànzhù zhōng.
The cops threw tear-gas bombs into the building.
那幢绿色屋顶的建筑是什么？
Nà zhuàng lǜsè wūdǐng de jiànzhù shì shénme?
What is that building with the green roof?
你喜欢讨论建筑，不是吗？
Nǐ xǐhuan tǎolùn jiànzhù, bù shì ma?
You like to talk about architecture, don't you?
Character Family
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