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筑 (Zhù): meaning and stroke order

筑 (Zhù) means short name for Guiyang 贵阳, five-string lute, Taiwan pr., to build, to construct, to ram.

筑

Simplified
筑
Traditional
筑, 築
Pinyin
Zhù

Stroke order of 筑

筑

  • Zhù short name for Guiyang 貴陽|贵阳[Gui4 yang2]
  • zhù five-string lute; Taiwan pr. [zhu2]
  • zhù to build; to construct
  • 12 strokes
  • Traditional form: 築

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 筑

  1. Zhù
    • short name for Guiyang 貴陽|贵阳[Gui4 yang2]
  2. zhù
    • five-string lute
    • Taiwan pr. [zhu2]
  3. zhù Traditional 築
    • to build
    • to construct
    • to ram
    • to hit
    • Taiwan pr. [zhu2]

Radical and structure

筑
Radical 竹 (Kangxi radical 118) · 12 strokes · 𥫗 on top, 巩 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

筑 in our stories

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  • 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

Stories using 筑

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).