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幢

chuáng

HSK 6 Character

What 幢 means

1. banner; pennant (in ancient China)

Other readings

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

• zhuàngclassifier for buildings (Taiwan pr. chuáng); curtain hung over boat or carriage windows

Example sentences

• 这是幢老楼。
  This is an old building.
• 看那边那幢高楼。
  Look at the large building over there.
• 这幢楼以前是医院。
  Zhè zhuàng lóu yǐqián shì yīyuàn.
  Formerly this building was a hospital.
• 那是幢高楼，不是吗？
  That is a high building, is it not?
• 你进这幢楼的时候是几点？
  Nǐ jìn zhè zhuàng lóu de shíhou shì jǐ diǎn?
  What time was it when you entered the building?
• 我一个人住在这幢房子里。
  Wǒ yīgèrén zhù zài zhè zhuàng fángzi lǐ.
  I live in this house by myself.

Words starting with 幢

• 幢幢chuáng chuáng(literary) (of light, shadows) flickering; dancing

Words containing 幢

• 经幢jīng chuángBuddhist stone pillar

Characters that look like 幢

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

• 槽cáotrough; manger; groove
• 稽jī(bound form) to examine; to check (against records); (literary) to delay; to linger…
• 幔màncurtain
• 憧chōngused in 憧憬; used in 憧憧
• 踵zhǒngto arrive; to follow; heel
• 锺zhōngnonstandard simplified variant of 钟

Sounds the same

Read chuáng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 床bed; couch (furniture that one can lie down on); bed…
• 噇(dialect) to eat or drink extravagantly