楼
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house with more than 1 story; storied building; floor; CL:層|层[ceng2],座[zuo4],棟|栋[dong4]
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- Old HSK
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- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 木 +9
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 楼
- Common rank
- #707
- Unicode
- U+697C
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Formation & memory
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Words with 楼
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 教学楼 | school building; academic building | |
| 楼上 | upstairs; (Internet slang) previous poster in a forum thread | |
| 楼下 | downstairs | |
| 出楼子 | variant of 出婁子|出娄子[chu1 lou2 zi5] | |
| 石楼县 | Shilou, a county in Lüliang City 呂梁市|吕梁市[Lu : 3 liang2 Shi4], Shanxi | |
| 五角大楼 | the Pentagon | |
| 人去楼空 | (lit.) the occupants have gone and the place is now empty (idiom); (fig.) (of a dwelling) … | |
| 近水楼台先得月 | the pavilion closest to the water enjoys moonlight first (idiom); to benefit from intimacy… | |
| 百货大楼 | department store | |
| 摩天大楼 | skyscraper; CL:座[zuo4] | |
| 大楼 | building (a relatively large, multistory one); CL:幢[zhuang4],座[zuo4] | |
| 楼子 | pavilion; variant of 婁子|娄子[lou2 zi5] | |
| 楼市 | real estate market | |
| 办公大楼 | office building | |
| 小楼 | small multi-story building; modest house with two or more floors | |
| 楼花 | apartment building offered for sale before construction is completed; off-plan property | |
| 上楼 | to go upstairs | |
| 气楼 | small ventilation tower on roof of building | |
| 近水楼台 | lit. a pavilion near the water (idiom); fig. using one's proximity to the powerful to obta… | |
| 高楼 | high building; multistory building; skyscraper; CL:座[zuo4] |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 娄 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 娄 sound part | a constellation; to wear; surname | |
| 数 | count, number, several | |
| 屡 | frequently, often, again and again | |
| 缕 | strand, thread; detailed, precise | |
| 喽 | used in onomatopoetic expressions | |
| 搂 | to embrace, to hug; to drag, to pull | |
| 蝼 | mole cricket; Gryllotalpa africana | |
| 篓 | bamboo basket | |
| 偻 | humpback; surname | |
| 镂 | to inlay; to engrave, to carve; tattoo | |
| 髅 | skull, skeleton | |
| 瘘 | fistula; goiter, sore, ulcer | |
| 褛 | lapel, collar; tattered, threadbare | |
| 屦 | straw sandals; to tread on | |
| 嵝 | the Goulou mountain in Hunan | |
| 窭 | poor; rustic | |
| 耧 | a drill for sowing grain | |
| 蒌 | Artemisia stelleriana |