厦
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(bound form) tall building; mansion; (bound form) rear annex; lean-to; Taiwan pr. [xia4]
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 厂 +10
- Structure
- Upper-left enclosure 左上包
- Traditional
- 厦
- Common rank
- #2,403
- Unicode
- U+53A6
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 厦
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 国会大厦 | capitol | |
| 厦门大学 | Xiamen University | |
| 机场大厦 | airport terminal | |
| 五角大厦 | (Tw) the Pentagon | |
| 多层大厦 | multistory building | |
| 摩天大厦 | skyscraper; CL:座[zuo4] | |
| 高楼大厦 | tall building | |
| 帝国大厦 | Empire State Building (New York City) | |
| 厦门市 | Xiamen, sub-provincial city in Fujian Province 福建省[Fu2 jian4 Sheng3] | |
| 纽约帝国大厦 | Empire State Building | |
| 购物大厦 | shopping mall | |
| 世贸大厦 | World Trade Center | |
| 大厦将倾 | great mansion on the verge of collapse (idiom); hopeless situation | |
| 金茂大厦 | Jin Mao Tower, skyscraper in Shanghai | |
| 大厦 | (used in the names of grand buildings such as 百老匯大廈|百老汇大厦 Broadway Mansions (in Shanghai) … | |
| 厦门 | see 廈門市|厦门市[Xia4 men2 Shi4] | |
| 航厦 | (Tw) airport terminal | |
| 偏厦 | side annex; lean-to | |
| 噶厦 | government of Tibet, dissolved in 1959 |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 夏 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 夏 sound part | summer; the Xia or Hsia dynasty | |
| 嗄 | hoarse |