寨
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stronghold; stockade; camp; (stockaded) village
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 宀 +11
- Structure
- Top–middle–bottom 上中下
- Traditional
- 寨
- Common rank
- #1,970
- Unicode
- U+5BE8
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Formation & memory
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How 寨 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A fortress 宀 with walls made of wood 木
How to remember it
stockade · Heisig RSH #2565
hamster cage + pole
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 寨
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 寨卡病毒 | Zika virus | |
| 山寨机 | knockoff cell phone; counterfeit phone | |
| 金寨县 | Jinzhai, a county in Lu'an City 六安市[Lu4 an1 Shi4], Anhui | |
| 九寨沟风景名胜区 | Jiuzhaigou Valley Scenic and Historical Interest Area, Sichuan | |
| 九龙城寨 | Kowloon Walled City | |
| 五寨县 | Wuzhai, a county in Xinzhou City 忻州市[Xin1 zhou1 Shi4], Shanxi | |
| 山寨货 | a fake; imitation or counterfeit product | |
| 烟花寨 | brothel (esp. in Yuan theater) | |
| 引狗入寨 | lit. to lead the dog into the village (idiom); fig. to introduce a potential source of tro… | |
| 丹寨县 | Danzhai, a county in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture 黔東南苗族侗族自治州|黔东南苗族侗族自治州… | |
| 安营扎寨 | to set up camp; Taiwan pr. [an1 ying2 zha2 zhai4] | |
| 大寨 | Dazhai | |
| 山寨 | fortified hill village; mountain stronghold (esp. of bandits); (fig.) knockoff (goods); co… | |
| 小寨 | Xiaozhai neighborhood of Xi'an | |
| 金寨 | see 金寨縣|金寨县[Jin1 zhai4 Xian4] | |
| 九寨沟县 | Jiuzhaigou, a county in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture 阿壩藏族羌族自治州|阿坝藏族羌族自治州[… | |
| 五寨 | see 五寨縣|五寨县[Wu3 zhai4 Xian4] | |
| 边寨 | frontier stockade | |
| 鹿寨县 | Luzhai, a county in Liuzhou City 柳州市[Liu3 zhou1 Shi4], Guangxi | |
| 营寨 | barracks |