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堆

duī

HSK 5 Character

What 堆 means

1. to pile up
2. to heap up
3. a mass
4. pile
5. heap
6. stack
7. large amount

Example sentences

• 看那堆钱。
  Look at all that money.
• 我在堆雪人。
  I'm making a snowman.
• 我在堆个雪人。
  Wǒ zài duī gè xuěrén.
  I'm making a snowman.
• 是谁堆的雪人？
  Who built this snowman?
• 让我们堆个雪人吧。
  Ràng wǒmen duī gè xuěrén ba.
  Let's make a snowman.
• 书堆满了他的房间。
  Books occupy most of his room.

Words starting with 堆

• 堆积duī jīto pile up; to heap; accumulation
• 堆满duī mǎnto pile up
• 堆放duī fàngto pile up; to stack
• 堆砌duī qìlit. to pile up (bricks); to pack; fig. to pad out (writing with fancy phrases)
• 堆积如山duī jī rú shānto pile up like a mountain (idiom); a mountain of (paperwork etc); a large number of sth
• 堆肥duī féicompost; to compost
• 堆积木duī jī mùto play with stacking blocks
• 堆高机duī gāo jīforklift
• 堆高车duī gāo chēhigh-lift pallet truck; pallet stacker
• 堆龙德庆区Duī lóng dé qìng QūDoilungdêqên, a district of Lhasa City 拉萨市
• 堆金积玉duī jīn jī yùlit. pile up gold and jade; very rich
• 堆叠duī diéto pile up; to put layer upon layer; (Taiwan; computing) stack
• 堆堆帽duī duī màoslouchy beanie
• 堆芯duī xīnreactor core
• 堆案盈几duī àn yíng jīlit. piles of work and papers (idiom); fig. accumulated backlog of work
• 堆垒duī lěito pile up; accumulative
• 堆垒数论duī lěi shù lùnadditive number theory (math.)
• 堆栈duī zhànstack (computing); storehouse; warehouse
• 堆龙德庆Duī lóng dé qìngsee 堆龙德庆区

Words containing 堆

• 垃圾堆lā jī duīgarbage heap
• 火堆huǒ duībonfire; to open fire
• 扎堆zhā duī(of people) to flock together; to congregate
• 土堆tǔ duīmound
• 料堆liào duīto stockpile
• 纸堆zhǐ duīpapers; stack of paper
• 估堆儿gū duī rto assess an entire lot
• 原子堆yuán zǐ duīatomic pile (original form of nuclear reactor)
• 反应堆fǎn yìng duīreactor
• 故纸堆gù zhǐ duīa pile of old books
• 马王堆Mǎ Wáng duīMawangdui in Changsha, Hunan, a recent Han dynasty archaeological site
• 最密堆积zuì mì duī jīclose-packing of spheres (math.)
• 核反应堆hé fǎn yìng duīnuclear reactor
• 核试验堆hé shì yàn duīnuclear test reactor
• 钻故纸堆zuān gù zhǐ duīto dig into piles of outdated writings (idiom); to study old books and papers
• 动力反应堆dòng lì fǎn yìng duīpower reactor
• 原子反应堆yuán zǐ fǎn yìng duīatomic reactor
• 增殖反应堆zēng zhí fǎn yìng duībreeder reactor
• 热核反应堆rè hé fǎn yìng duīthermal reactor
• 生产反应堆shēng chǎn fǎn yìng duīproduction reactor
• 轻水反应堆qīng shuǐ fǎn yìng duīlight water reactor (LWR)
• 重水反应堆zhòng shuǐ fǎn yìng duīheavy water reactor (HWR)
• 气冷式反应堆qì lěng shì fǎn yìng duīgas-cooled reactor
• 乃堆拉Nǎi duī lāNathu La (Himalayan pass on Silk Road between Tibet and Indian Sikkim)

Characters built on 隹

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

• 推tuīto push; to cut; to refuse
• 锥zhuīcone; awl; to bore
• 崔cuī(literary) (of mountains) lofty
• 椎zhuī(bound form) vertebra
• 睢suīto stare
• 骓zhuī(literary) piebald horse
• 碓duìpestle; pound with a pestle

Characters that look like 堆

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

• 缔dì(archaic) to bind up inextricably; (bound form) to form an enduring union…
• 难nándifficult (to...); problem; difficulty
• 谁shéiwho; also pr. shuí
• 唯wéionly; alone; -ism (in Chinese, a prefix, often combined with a suffix such as 主义
• 雄xióngmale; staminate; grand
• 惟wéi-ism; only

Sounds the same

Read duī, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 追to sculpt; to carve; musical instrument (old)
• 垖old variant of 堆
• 塠old variant of 堆