章
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chapter; section; clause; movement (of symphony); seal; badge; regulation; order
- HSK 3.0
- Level 3
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 音 +2
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 章
- Common rank
- #848
- Unicode
- U+7AE0
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 章
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大有文章 | some deeper meaning in this; more to it than meets the eye; there's sth behind all this | |
| 出口成章 | (idiom) (of one's speech) eloquent; articulate | |
| 表面文章 | superficial show; going through the motions | |
| 约法三章 | to agree on three laws (idiom); three-point covenant; (fig.) preliminary agreement; basic … | |
| 章回小说 | novel in chapters, main format for long novels from the Ming onwards, with each chapter he… | |
| 走马章台 | to go to the brothel on horseback (idiom); to visit prostitutes | |
| 四十二章经 | The Sutra in Forty-two Sections Spoken by the Buddha, the first Chinese Buddhist text, tra… | |
| 顺理成章 | logical; only to be expected; rational and clearly structured (of text) | |
| 大费周章 | to take great pains; to go to a lot of trouble | |
| 麻章区 | Mazhang, a district of Zhanjiang City 湛江市[Zhan4 jiang1 Shi4], Guangdong | |
| 章子 | seal; stamp | |
| 会章 | constitution; bylaws; charter (of an organization etc) | |
| 手章 | private seal; stamp inked on the back of one's hand (used to prove that one has paid to en… | |
| 公章 | official seal | |
| 文章 | article; essay; literary works; writings; hidden meaning; CL:篇[pian1],段[duan4],頁|页[ye4] | |
| 断章取义 | (idiom) to quote out of context | |
| 成章 | to form a coherent composition | |
| 规章制度 | rules and regulations | |
| 官样文章 | officialese; red tape | |
| 章台 | street name in ancient Chang'an synonymous with brothel area; red-light district |
Sound family
These characters use 章 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 章 sound part | chapter, section, writing; seal | |
| 商 | commerce, business, trade | |
| 障 | to separate; shield, barricade | |
| 彰 | clear, manifest, obvious | |
| 漳 | a river in Henan province | |
| 樟 | camphor tree | |
| 瘴 | malaria; miasma, pestilential vapor | |
| 獐 | roebuck, hornless river deer | |
| 嶂 | cliff; the barrier formed by a mountain range | |
| 璋 | jade plaything; jade ornament | |
| 蟑 | cockroach | |
| 嫜 | husband's mother; the lady in the moon | |
| 鄣 | an ancient city in Jiangsu province |