庄

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farmstead; village; manor; place of business; banker (in a gambling game); grave or solemn; holdings of a landlord (in imperial China)

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HSK 3.0: Level 6
Old HSK: Level 6
Strokes: 6
Radical: 广 +3
Structure: Upper-left enclosure 左上包
Traditional: 庄
Common rank: #1,233
Unicode: U+5E84

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Formation & memory

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How 庄 is formed

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

广 meaning “house” + 壯 sound

Components 广土

How to remember it

hamlet · Heisig RSH #562

cave + 土 soil

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words with 庄

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

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
石家庄市	Shí jiā zhuāng Shì	Shijiazhuang, prefecture-level city and capital of Hebei Province 河北省[He2 bei3 Sheng3]
台儿庄区	Tái ér zhuāng Qū	Tai'erzhuang, a district of Zaozhuang City 棗莊市\|枣庄市[Zao3 zhuang1 Shi4], Shandong
新庄市	Xīn zhuāng shì	Xinzhuang or Hsinchuang city in New Taipei City 新北市[Xin1 bei3 shi4], Taiwan
地下钱庄	dì xià qián zhuāng	underground bank; illegal private bank; loan shark
罗庄区	Luó zhuāng Qū	Luozhuang, a district of Linyi City 臨沂市\|临沂市[Lin2 yi2 Shi4], Shandong
石家庄	Shí jiā zhuāng	see 石家莊市\|石家庄市[Shi2 jia1 zhuang1 Shi4]
庄河市	Zhuāng hé Shì	Zhuanghe, a county-level city in Dalian City 大連市\|大连市[Da4 lian2 Shi4], Liaoning
台儿庄	Tái ér zhuāng	see 台兒莊區\|台儿庄区[Tai2 er2 zhuang1 Qu1]
康庄大道	kāng zhuāng dà dào	broad and open road (idiom); fig. brilliant future prospects
动物庄园	Dòng wù Zhuāng yuán	Animal Farm (1945), novel and famous satire on communist revolution by George Orwell 喬治·奧威…
庄子	Zhuāng zǐ	Zhuangzi (c. 369–286 BC), Daoist philosopher; the eponymous Daoist classic
庄子	zhuāng zi	(coll.) village; hamlet; CL:座[zuo4]
山庄	shān zhuāng	manor house; villa; (used in hotel names)
庄家	zhuāng jiā	farmhouse; banker (gambling)
环秀山庄	Huán xiù Shān zhuāng	Mountain Villa with Embracing Beauty in Suzhou, Jiangsu, one of the Classical Gardens of S…
新庄	Xīn zhuāng	Xinzhuang or Hsinchuang city in New Taipei City 新北市[Xin1 bei3 shi4], Taiwan
老庄	Lǎo Zhuāng	Laozi and Zhuangzi (or Lao-tze and Chuang-tze), the founders of Daoism
庄老	Zhuāng Lǎo	Zhuangzi and Laozi, the Daoist masters
罗庄	Luó zhuāng	see 羅莊區\|罗庄区[Luo2 zhuang1 Qu1]
庄重	zhuāng zhòng	grave; solemn; dignified

Sound family

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

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
壯 sound part	—	big, large; robust, strong; the name of a tribe
奘	zàng	fat, stout, thick; powerful, stocky