墙

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wall (CL:面[mian4],堵[du3]); (slang) to block (a website) (usu. in the passive: 被牆|被墙[bei4 qiang2])

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Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

土 meaning “earth” + 啬 sound ( sè )

Components 土啬

wall · Heisig RSH #1781

土 soil + animal horns + 回 return

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
不撞南墙不回头	bù zhuàng nán qiáng bù huí tóu	to stubbornly insist on one's own ideas (idiom)
空心墙	kōng xīn qiáng	cavity wall; hollow wall
民主墙	Mín zhǔ qiáng	Democracy Wall, Beijing (1978–1979); bulletin boards modeled on it in some Hong Kong unive…
清水墙	qīng shuǐ qiáng	unplastered masonry wall
没有不透风的墙	méi yǒu bù tòu fēng de qiáng	(idiom) no secret can be kept forever
女儿墙	nǚ ér qiáng	crenelated parapet wall
墙头草	qiáng tóu cǎo	sb who goes whichever way the wind blows; sb with no mind of their own; easily swayed pers…
引水入墙	yǐn shuǐ rù qiáng	lit. to lead the water through the wall; to ask for trouble (idiom)
听墙根儿	tīng qiáng gēn r	erhua variant of 聽牆根\|听墙根[ting1 qiang2 gen1]
墙倒众人推	qiáng dǎo zhòng rén tuī	lit. when a wall is about to collapse, everybody gives it a shove (idiom); fig. everybody …
第四面墙	dì sì miàn qiáng	the fourth wall (in theater, TV, film etc)
防火墙	fáng huǒ qiáng	firewall
人墙	rén qiáng	human barricade; (soccer) defensive wall
山墙	shān qiáng	gable
西墙	Xī qiáng	Western Wall, or Wailing Wall (Jerusalem)
墙面	qiáng miàn	the surface of a wall (esp. an interior wall)
城墙	chéng qiáng	city wall
外墙	wài qiáng	facade; external wall
火墙	huǒ qiáng	firewall
隔墙有耳	gé qiáng yǒu ěr	the walls have ears (idiom)

Characters sharing the sound component 啬 — compare how they read.