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墙

qiáng

HSK 4 Character Traditional 牆 Measure word 面、堵

What 墙 means

1. wall
2. slangto block (a website) (usu. in the passive: {被墙|bèi qiáng})

Other readings

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

• qiángvariant of {墙|qiáng}

Example sentences

• 别倚着墙。
  Bié yǐ zhe qiáng.
  Don't lean against the wall.
• 隔墙有耳。
  Gé qiáng yǒu ěr.
  The walls have ears.
• 墙上有耳。
  The walls have ears.
• 他靠着墙。
  He was leaning against the wall.
• 肯跳过了墙。
  Ken jumped over the wall.
• 画挂在墙上。
  The picture is hanging on the wall.

Words starting with 墙

• 墙壁qiáng bìwall
• 墙角qiáng jiǎocorner (junction of two walls)
• 墙面qiáng miànthe surface of a wall (esp. an interior wall)
• 墙根qiáng gēnfoot of a wall
• 墙报qiáng bàowall newspaper
• 墙纸qiáng zhǐwallpaper
• 墙头草qiáng tóu cǎosb who goes whichever way the wind blows; sb with no mind of their own…
• 墙倒众人推qiáng dǎo zhòng rén tuīlit. when a wall is about to collapse, everybody gives it a shove (idiom)…
• 墙板锯qiáng bǎn jùdrywall saw; plasterboard saw
• 墙垣qiáng yuánwall; fence
• 墙旮旯qiáng gā lárecess between walls

Words containing 墙

• 城墙chéng qiángcity wall
• 围墙wéi qiángperimeter wall; fence
• 外墙wài qiángfacade; external wall
• 防火墙fáng huǒ qiángfirewall
• 柏林墙Bó lín QiángBerlin Wall
• 翻墙fān qiánglit. to climb over the wall; fig. to breach the Great Firewall of China
• 幕墙mù qiángcurtain wall (architecture)
• 人墙rén qiánghuman barricade; (soccer) defensive wall
• 红杏出墙hóng xìng chū qiánglit. the red apricot tree leans over the garden wall (idiom)…
• 西墙Xī qiángWestern Wall, or Wailing Wall (Jerusalem)
• 山墙shān qiánggable
• 女墙nǚ qiángcrenelated parapet wall
• 火墙huǒ qiángfirewall
• 穿墙chuān qiáng(of a ghost, Wi-Fi signal etc) to pass through a wall
• 被墙bèi qiáng(slang) (of a website) to get blocked
• 付费墙fù fèi qiáng(computing) paywall (loanword)
• 佛跳墙fó tiào qiánglit. Buddha jumps over the wall, name for a Chinese dish that uses many non-vegetarian…
• 女儿墙nǚ ér qiángcrenelated parapet wall
• 民主墙Mín zhǔ qiángDemocracy Wall, Beijing (1978–1979); bulletin boards modeled on it in some Hong Kong…
• 混水墙hún shuǐ qiángplastered masonry wall
• 清水墙qīng shuǐ qiángunplastered masonry wall
• 空心墙kōng xīn qiángcavity wall; hollow wall
• 听墙根tīng qiáng gēnto eavesdrop; to listen in secret to sb's conversations
• 引水入墙yǐn shuǐ rù qiánglit. to lead the water through the wall; to ask for trouble (idiom)

Characters built on 啬

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

• 蔷qiángused in 蔷薇
• 嫱qiángfemale court officials
• 樯qiángboom; mast

Characters that look like 墙

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

• 谱pǔchart; list; table
• 嘀dī(onomatopoeia) sound of dripping water, a ticking clock etc
• 撸lū(dialect) to grasp (sth long or cylindrical) and slide the hand up or down…
• 熵shāngentropy (character created in 1923)
• 楂cháfell trees; raft; to hew
• 嫡dí(bound form) of or by the wife, as opposed to a concubine (contrasted with 庶

Sounds the same

Read qiáng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 强strong; powerful; better
• 蔷used in 蔷薇
• 嫱female court officials
• 樯boom; mast
• 廧wall
• 丬"piece of wood" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 90), mirror image of 片
• 蔃cigarette (slang) (Cantonese)