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砖

zhuān

HSK 6 Character Traditional 磚 Measure word 块

What 砖 means

1. brick
2. tile (floor or wall, not roof)

Other readings

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

• zhuānvariant of {砖|zhuān}
• zhuānvariant of {砖|zhuān}

Example sentences

• 你需要多少块儿磁砖？
  How many tiles do you need?
• 一阵寒意像砖头一样击中了我。
  A cold wave of fear hit me like a brick.
• 把安全帽戴上。这里很可能会有砖块砸到你头上。
  Put your hard hat on. You might well get a brick fall on your head here.
• 但我将总是会向你们坦陈我们所面临的挑战。我会听取你们的意见，尤其是存在不同意见的时候。最重要的是，我会请求你们参与重建这个国家，以美国221年来从未改变的唯一方式-一砖一瓦、同心协力。
  Dàn wǒ jiāng zǒngshì huì xiàng nǐmen tǎnchén wǒmen suǒ miànlín de tiǎozhàn. wǒ huì tīngqǔ nǐmen de yìjiàn, yóuqíshì cúnzài bù tóngyì jiàn de shíhou. zuì zhòngyào de shì, wǒ huì qǐngqiú nǐmen cānyù chóngjiàn zhège guójiā, yǐ Měiguó 221 niánlái cóngwèi gǎibiàn de wéiyī fāngshì - yī zhuān yī wǎ, tóngxīnxiélì.
  But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it's been done in America for 221 years; block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.
• 我在黑暗的巷子中绊倒，膝盖砸在柏油路上。一块木板盖着巷弄的房屋之间的电线。深夜的巷弄非常之暗。我的眼镜从眼睛上掉了下来。幸好有一位带着手电筒的广东工人帮忙。我的膝盖只是擦破了皮。我想起另一次膝盖摔伤是在菲律宾奎松市的唐荷西高地。那里有一大片火星般的红土地，遍地长满了「塔拉希布」草。有时工人会故意纵火烧草。我和哥哥当时还在外面玩。那时我们还未到青春期。在燃烧的野草旁，我摔倒了，膝盖着地。我的贝贝姥姥愤怒不已。家里的女佣在车库后面的大磁砖水槽里帮我清洗了双腿。
  I tripped in the alleyway in the darkness, as I crashed my knees on the asphalt. There was a wooden board that covered a wire between houses across the alleyway. It was very dark there at night. My eyeglasses fell off my face. Luckily, a Cantonese labourer with a flashlight helped me. My knees just got scraped. I remember another time when I crashed on my knees. It was at Don José Heights in Quezon City in the Philippines. There was a vastness of Martianesque red soil, wherein the "talahib" grass grew. Sometimes, workers intentionally set the grass on fire. My brother and I were still playing, even then, outside. We were still prepubescent. Near burning grass, I stumbled on my knees. My grandmother, Lola Bebe, was so angry. A maid washed my legs in the big tiled sink behind the garage.

Words starting with 砖

• 砖瓦zhuān wǎtiles and bricks
• 砖头zhuān toubrick
• 砖块zhuān kuàibrick
• 砖石zhuān shíbrick
• 砖红土zhuān hóng tǔred brick clay
• 砖窑zhuān yáobrick kiln
• 砖窑场zhuān yáo chǎngbrick kiln

Words containing 砖

• 瓷砖cí zhuānceramic tile
• 地砖dì zhuānfloor tile
• 抛砖引玉pāo zhuān yǐn yùlit. throw out a brick and get jade thrown back (idiom)…
• 冰砖bīng zhuānice-cream brick; brick of ice
• 抛砖pāo zhuānto get the ball rolling (abbr. for 抛砖引玉
• 拍砖pāi zhuān(slang) to throw brickbats; to criticize harshly
• 搬砖bān zhuānto do hard physical labor (as a job); (fig.) to play mahjong
• 救砖jiù zhuānto unbrick; to restore (an electronic device) to a functional state
• 板砖bǎn zhuān(dialect) wall brick
• 标砖biāo zhuānmarker brick (in building); keystone
• 茶砖chá zhuāntea brick
• 变砖biàn zhuān(of an electronic device) to brick; to become inoperable
• 金砖jīn zhuāngold brick
• 面砖miàn zhuānfacing brick; facade tile used to cover exterior walls
• 地板砖dì bǎn zhuānfloor tile
• 导盲砖dǎo máng zhuān(Taiwan) tactile paving tile
• 盲道砖máng dào zhuāntactile paving tile
• 耐火砖nài huǒ zhuānrefractory brick; firebrick
• 软木砖ruǎn mù zhuāncork tile; cork flooring
• 引玉之砖yǐn yù zhī zhuānlit. a brick thrown to prompt others to produce a jade (idiom)…
• 添砖加瓦tiān zhuān jiā wǎlit. contribute bricks and tiles for a building (idiom); fig. to do one's bit to help
• 金砖国家Jīn zhuān Guó jiāBRICS (economic bloc)
• 敲门砖qiāo mén zhuānlit. a brick as a door knocker (idiom); fig. a temporary expedient…
• 煤砖méi zhuānbriquette

Characters built on 专

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

• 传chuánto pass on; to spread; to transmit
• 转zhuǎnto turn; to change direction; to transfer
• 抟tuánto roll up into a ball with one's hands (variant of 团; (literary) to circle; to wheel

Characters that look like 砖

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

• 玲líng(onomatopoeia) ting-a-ling (in compounds such as 玎玲 or 玲珑); tinkling of gem-pendants
• 砰pēng(onomatopoeia) bang; thump
• 垮kuǎto collapse (lit. or fig.)
• 殉xùnto be buried with the dead; to die for a cause
• 胯kuàcrotch; groin; hip
• 砑yàto calender

Sounds the same

Read zhuān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 专for a particular person, occasion, purpose; focused on one thing; special
• 颛good; simple
• 䏝(dialect) gizzard
• 鱄fish (meaning variable: mackerel, anchovy, fresh-water fish)