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窗

chuāng

HSK 4 Character Measure word 扇

What 窗 means

1. window

Other readings

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

• chuāngold variant of {窗|chuāng}
• chuāngvariant of {窗|chuāng}
• chuāngvariant of {窗|chuāng}
• chuāngvariant of {窗|chuāng}

Example sentences

• 请打开窗。
  Open the window.
• 关上窗户！
  Close the window.
• 她看了窗外。
  She looked out of the window.
• 让窗子关着。
  Keep the window closed.
• 可以开窗吗？
  Can I open the window?
• 我望向窗外。
  I looked out the window.

Words starting with 窗

• 窗户chuāng huwindow
• 窗帘chuāng liánwindow curtains
• 窗口chuāng kǒuwindow; opening providing restricted access (e.g. customer service window)…
• 窗子chuāng ziwindow
• 窗台chuāng táiwindowsill; window ledge
• 窗玻璃chuāng bō líwindow pane
• 窗棂chuāng língwindow lattice
• 窗框chuāng kuàngwindow frame
• 窗花chuāng huāpaper cutting
• 窗体chuāng tǐform…
• 窗口期chuāng kǒu qīwindow (interval of time); (epidemiology) window period
• 窗明几净chuāng míng jī jìnglit. clear window and clean table (idiom); fig. bright and clean
• 窗饰chuāng shìwindow decoration
• 窗扇chuāng shànwindow; the opening panel of a window
• 窗钩chuāng gōuwindow hook; window latch
• 窗幔chuāng màncurtain
• 窗帷chuāng wéicurtain
• 窗户棂chuāng hù língwindow lattice
• 窗棂子chuāng líng ziwindow lattice

Words containing 窗

• 车窗chē chuāngcar window; window of a vehicle (bus, train etc)
• 橱窗chú chuāngdisplay window
• 靠窗kào chuāngby the window (referring to seats on a plane etc)
• 同窗tóng chuāngschoolmate; fellow student
• 天窗tiān chuānghatchway; skylight; sun roof
• 视窗shì chuānga window (on a computer screen)
• 落地窗luò dì chuāngfloor-to-ceiling window; French window
• 铁窗tiě chuāngwindow with an iron grating (apartment etc); barred window of a prison cell
• 纱窗shā chuāngscreen window
• 百叶窗bǎi yè chuāngshutter; blind
• 寒窗hán chuānga life of strenuous studies (idiom)
• 舷窗xián chuāngporthole; scuttle
• 弹窗tán chuāngpop-up window (computing)
• 听窗tīng chuāngto eavesdrop outside bridal bedchamber (folk custom)
• 脱窗tuō chuāng(Taiwan) cross-eyed (from Taiwanese 挩窗, Tai-lo pr. [thuah-thang])
• 边窗biān chuāngside window
• 风窗fēng chuāngair vent; louver; window
• 前庭窗qián tíng chuāngfenestra vestibuli (of inner ear)
• 太阳窗tài yáng chuāngsun window; sun roof (of car)
• 空窗期kōng chuāng qīwindow period (time between infection and the appearance of detectable antibodies)…
• 开天窗kāi tiān chuāngto leave a blank to mark censored area
• 明窗净几míng chuāng jìng jīlit. clear window and clean table (idiom); fig. bright and clean (room)
• 东窗事发dōng chuāng shì fā(of a plot etc) to be exposed (idiom); to come to light
• 铁窗生活tiě chuāng shēng huótime served in prison; prison life

Characters that look like 窗

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

• 富fùrich; abundant; wealthy
• 裔yì(bound form) descendants; (bound form) of ... ancestry (as in 华裔; (literary) distant lands
• 窑yáokiln; oven; coal pit
• 窒zhìto obstruct; to stop up
• 窖jiàocellar; to store in a cellar
• 笞chīto whip with bamboo strips

Sounds the same

Read chuāng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 疮sore; skin ulcer
• 创(bound form) a wound; to wound
• 刱variant of 创
• 囱variant of 窗