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砌

qì

Character

What 砌 means

1. to build by laying bricks or stones

Other readings

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

• qièused in {砌末|qiè mo}

Words starting with 砌

• 砌合qì hébond (in building)
• 砌块qì kuàibuilding block
• 砌层qì céngcourse (i.e. building layer)
• 砌砖qì zhuānto lay bricks; bricklaying
• 砌路qì lùpaving
• 砌体qì tǐbrickwork
• 砌合法qì hé fǎbond (in building)
• 砌砖工qì zhuān gōngbricklaying
• 砌长城qì Cháng chéng(colloquial) to play mahjong
• 砌词捏控qì cí niē kòngto make an accusation based on fabricated evidence (idiom)
• 砌末qiè movariant of 切末

Words containing 砌

• 堆砌duī qìlit. to pile up (bricks); to pack; fig. to pad out (writing with fancy phrases)
• 垒砌lěi qìto build a structure out of layered bricks or stones
• 铺砌pū qìto pave
• 雕栏玉砌diāo lán yù qì(lit.) carved railings and jade steps (idiom); (fig.) richly ornamented (building)

Characters that look like 砌

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

• 积jīto amass; to accumulate; to store up; (math) product (the result of multiplication)…
• 铆mǎoto fasten with a rivet; to rivet; to hammer in a rivet…
• 钽tǎntantalum (chemistry)
• 栩xǔused in 栩栩; jolcham oak (Quercus serrata)
• 耘yúnto weed
• 郴chēnused in 郴州

Sounds the same

Read qì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 气gas; air; smell; weather
• 汽steam; vapor
• 弃to abandon; to relinquish; to discard
• 器device; tool; utensil
• 迄as yet; until
• 泣to sob
• 契to carve; carved words; to agree
• 妻to marry off (a daughter)
• 讫finished
• 憩to rest
• 亟repeatedly; frequently
• 蟿(insect); Tryxalis masuta