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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *樓* | 樓* | *樓
house with more than 1 story / storied building / floor / CL: 層|层, , 棟|栋
HSK 1
on the ground / on the floor
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *層* | 層* | *層
to pile on top of one another / layer; stratum / floor (of a building); story / (math.) sheaf / classifier for layers
HSK 2
area (of a floor, piece of land etc) / surface area / tract of land
HSK 3
floor / ground / surface
HSK 4
pond / bathhouse pool / dance floor of a ballroom / (old) stalls (front rows in a theater)
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *拖* | 拖* | *拖
to drag / to tow / to trail / to hang down / to mop (the floor) / to delay / to drag on
HSK 6
floor
HSK 6
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *磚* | 磚* | *磚
brick / tile (floor or wall, not roof) / CL: 塊|块
HSK 7-9
ground floor; first floor / lowest level; lowest rung (of society etc)
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *場* | 場* | *場
threshing floor / classifier for events and happenings: spell, episode, bout
basic salary / base pay / salary floor
floor; story (of a building)
to crush or compact (with a roller) / to run over (with a vehicle) / (fig.) to trounce; to wipe the floor with; to be far superior
floor-to-ceiling window / French window
floor
to wax (a car, floor etc)
valley floor / (fig.) lowest ebb / all-time low
floor lamp
to mop the floor / (of a gown etc) to trail on the ground / full-length
lit. if thrown on the floor, it will make a sound (idiom) / fig. (of one's words) powerful and resonating / to have substance
threshing floor
to make one's bed on the floor
roadway / floor / deck / bridge floor
saving a life is more meritorious than building a seven-floor pagoda (idiom)
to thresh grain (on the floor)
floor (gymnastics)
(martial arts) floor-sweeping kick (to trip one's opponent)
to kowtow (touch the forehead to the floor)
threshing floor
to delegate / to decentralize / to demote a party cadre to work on the shop floor or in the countryside
floor with tiled design
threshing floor
to sit on the ground or the floor (idiom)
(of floors, roads etc) wet and slippery
tenement building, typically of 2-4 stories, with a shop on the ground floor and upper floors used for residential purposes (esp. in southern China)
floor mat; bathroom mat; car mat; doormat
tiling (of roofs, floors, walls etc)
relative position of exhibition booth / allocated floor space for display stall / allotted exhibit area
drain / underground drainpipe / floor gutter / 25th of 2nd lunar month
sea sand (sand of the ocean floor or seashore)
to vacuum the floor
floor tile
(used on signs) caution - wet floor (lit. "be careful, the floor is slippery")
to clean the floor / (Internet slang) (lit.) to wash (the blood) off the floor / (fig.) to cover up evidence of sb's wrongdoing / to defend (a wrongdoer) / (coll.) to carpet-bomb
(Tw) shared-facilities ratio (expressed as a percentage of the total floor space of a building)
floor / platform
floor area / occupied area / footprint (of a building, piece of equipment etc)
to sweep the floor / (fig.) (of one's reputation etc) to reach rock bottom / to be at an all-time low
seven floor pagoda
basement level 1; floor B1
dinner show / dinner and floor show
(anatomy) pelvic floor
floor monitor; foldback speaker; wedge monitor
to mop the floor
red waistcoat / (stock market) floor trader; floor broker
dance floor
exchange / trading floor
ground floor; first floor
to be looking for one's teeth all over the floor / (fig.) to get beaten up badly / to beat the crap out of (sb)
floor tom (drum kit component)
(architecture) basement level 1; floor B1
dinner show / dinner and floor show
floor tile
ground floor / first floor
floor / floor (ie. metal plate, concrete slab, wooden planking etc)
tabula (horizontal floor of polyp)
ocean floor / bottom of the ocean
(architecture) clear height; vertical clearance (from the floor to the lowest hanging object, such as a beam, pipe or ceiling) / (coll.) a person's height measured without shoes; actual height
lit. the boot hits the floor (idiom) / fig. a much-anticipated, impactful development has finally occurred (an allusion to a joke from the 1950s in which a young man would take off a boot and throw it onto the floor, waking the old man sleeping downstairs who could then not get back to sleep until he had heard the second boot hit the floor)
top floor / the top of a building
top floor / attic / loft / garret / penthouse / (flat) rooftop (often used as an outdoor living area etc)
first floor / ground floor
pelvic floor (anatomy)


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