墙 (qiáng): meaning and stroke order

墙 in our stories

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• 庙里的墙上有一幅很大的山水画，可是只画了一半，另一半还是白的。

  miào lǐ de qiáng shàng yǒu yì fú hěn dà de shānshuǐhuà kěshì zhǐ huà le yí bàn lìng yí bàn háishi bái de

  On the temple wall was a huge landscape painting, but only half had been painted; the other half was still blank.

  From the story The girl in the painting HSK 5

• 鲧的办法是“堵”：哪里有水，就在哪里筑起高高的土墙。可是水越堵越高，最后冲垮了所有的墙。

  Gǔn de bànfǎ shì dǔ nǎli yǒu shuǐ jiù zài nǎli zhù qǐ gāogāo de tǔqiáng kěshì shuǐ yuè dǔ yuè gāo zuìhòu chōng kuǎ le suǒyǒu de qiáng

  Gun's method was to block: wherever there was water, he built high earth walls. But the more he blocked it, the higher the water rose, until it burst through every wall.

  From the story Yu the Great tames the flood HSK 6

• 天快黑的时候，他抬头看见墙上那只早就不走了的老挂钟：舅公每天都要看它好几次，可它的时间从来不对。

  tiān kuài hēi de shíhou tā tái tóu kànjiàn qiáng shàng nà zhī zǎo jiù bù zǒu le de lǎo guàzhōng jiùgōng měitiān dōu yào kàn tā hǎo jǐ cì kě tā de shíjiān cónglái bú duì

  As it was getting dark he looked up at the old wall clock that had stopped long ago: his great-uncle looked at it several times a day, yet it never showed the right time.

  From the story Great-uncle's wooden box HSK 6