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楼
樓
lóu
1.
house with more than 1 story
2.
storied building
3.
floor
4.
CL:[[層|层<céng>]], [[座<zuò>]], [[棟|栋<dòng>]]
HSK 3
Very Common • Top 1%
Character Breakdown (Single character)
Compound Words (20)
上楼
shànglóu
to go upstairs
主楼
zhǔlóu
main building
危楼
wēilóu
dangerous housing
吊楼
diàolóu
a building supported on pillars projecting over a river
唐楼
tánglóu
tenement building, typically of 2-4 stories, with a shop on the ground floor and upper floors used for residential purposes (esp. in southern China)
土楼
tǔlóu
traditional communal residence, usually of circular shape, found in Fujian province
城楼
chénglóu
city gate tower
塔楼
tǎlóu
tower (of building)
坠楼
zhuìlóu
to fall off or jump off a building
堕楼
duòlóu
to jump to one's death
大楼
dàlóu
building (a relatively large, multi-storey one)
层楼
cénglóu
multistoried building
岗楼
gǎnglòu
watchtower
更楼
gēnglóu
watch tower
望楼
wànglóu
watchtower
板楼
bǎnlóu
slab type building
楼上
lóushàng
upstairs
楼下
lóuxià
downstairs
楼主
lóuzhǔ
original poster (in an online forum)
楼子
lóuzi
pavilion
Example Sentences (1)
我们住在同一个楼、同一个房间。
Wǒmen zhù zài tóng yí gè lóu, tóng yí gè fángjiān.
We live in the same building, in the same room.
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Metadata
- Category
- Chinese
- HSK Character Level
- 3
- Character Frequency Rank
- 875
- Word Frequency Rank
- 677 of 84,292