幢

chuáng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 character level 7-9 Character

幢 (chuáng) means "banner; classifier for buildings; carriage curtain (old)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 幢 means

banner; pennant (in ancient China)

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.

Sounds the same

Read chuáng, tone for tone, but written differently.

Where 幢 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · chuàn–zhuàn (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
How characters are built from components.
How to learn Chinese characters.
The four tones and the neutral tone, to read chuáng correctly.
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