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桩

zhuāng

Character Traditional 樁

What 桩 means

1. stump; stake; pile
2. classifier for events, cases, transactions, affairs etc

Example sentences

• 汤姆出了桩事故。
  Tom had a bad accident.
• 那桩杀人案是这样发生的。
  Nà zhuāng shārén'àn shì zhèyàng fāshēng de.
  The murder case happened in this way.
• 毫无疑问，我们正在调查一桩命案。
  Make no mistake, we're looking at a homicide case.
• 私家侦探们受雇调查这桩奇怪的案件。
  Sījiā zhēntànmen shòugù diàochá zhè zhuāng qíguài de ànjiàn.
  Private detectives were hired to look into the strange case.

Words starting with 桩

• 桩脚zhuāng jiǎopier foundation (architecture); (Taiwan) politically influential figure enlisted to…
• 桩构栈道zhuāng gòu zhàn dàopile trestle
• 桩桩件件zhuāng zhuāng jiàn jiàneach and every one

Words containing 桩

• 木桩mù zhuāngwooden pile; stake
• 树桩shù zhuāngtree stump
• 基桩jī zhuāngfoundation piles
• 打桩dǎ zhuāngto drive piles into
• 暗桩àn zhuāngsubmerged piles installed to prevent the passage of boats; (fig.) informer; spy
• 板桩bǎn zhuāngsheet pile
• 标桩biāo zhuāng(marking) stake
• 界桩jiè zhuāngboundary marker; boundary post; boundary pillar
• 绑桩bǎng zhuāng(Taiwan) to buy off influential people (in an election, a call for tenders etc)
• 缆桩lǎn zhuāngmooring bollard
• 路桩lù zhuāngbollard
• 充电桩chōng diàn zhuāngelectric vehicle charging point; EV charger
• 打桩机dǎ zhuāng jīpile driver (machinery)
• 小事一桩xiǎo shì yī zhuāngtrivial matter; a piece of cake
• 宁拆十座庙，不毁一桩婚nìng chāi shí zuò miào , bù huǐ yī zhuāng hūnrather destroy ten temples than a single marriage (idiom)
• 件件桩桩jiàn jiàn zhuāng zhuāngsee 桩桩件件

Characters that look like 桩

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

• 标biāomark; sign; label
• 核hépit; stone; nucleus
• 挂guàto hang; to suspend (from a hook etc); to hang up (the phone); (of a line) to be dead
• 舱cāngcabin; the hold of a ship or airplane
• 桉ānEucalyptus globulus; Taiwan pr. àn
• 敝bìmy (polite); poor; ruined

Sounds the same

Read zhuāng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 装adornment; to adorn; dress
• 庄farmstead; village; manor
• 妆(of a woman) to adorn oneself; makeup; adornment
• 庒old variant of 庄