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垛

duǒ

Character

What 垛 means

1. battlement
2. target

Other readings

垛 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• duòpile
• duǒvariant of {垛|duǒ}

Words starting with 垛

• 垛口duǒ kǒucrenel

Characters built on 朵

These share the phonetic component 朵 (duǒ), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 躲duǒto hide; to dodge; to avoid
• 跺duòto stamp one's feet
• 剁duòto chop up (meat etc); to chop off (sb's hand etc)
• 哚duǒused in 吲哚

Characters that look like 垛

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 根gēnroot; basis; classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings
• 旅lǚtrip; travel; to travel
• 艰jiāndifficult; hard; hardship
• 晓xiǎodawn; daybreak; to know
• 株zhūtree trunk; stump (tree root); a plant
• 姝shūpretty woman

Sounds the same

Read duǒ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 朵flower; earlobe; fig. item on both sides
• 躲to hide; to dodge; to avoid
• 哚used in 吲哚
• 埵solid earth
• 亸hang down
• 躱variant of 躲
• 軃variant of 亸