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  *道* | 道* | *道
road; path (CL:條|条,) / (bound form) way; reason; principle / (bound form) a skill; an art; a specialization / (Daoism) the Way; the Dao / to say (introducing a direct quotation, as in a novel) / (bound form) to express; to extend (polite words) / classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process / (old) circuit (administrative division)
HSK 2
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *牆* | 牆* | *牆
wall (CL:,) / (slang) to block (a website) (usu. in the passive: 被牆|被墙)
HSK 2
the Great Wall
HSK 3
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *城* | 城* | *城
city walls / city / town / CL: , , 個|个
HSK 3
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *矮* | 矮* | *矮
(of a person) short / (of a wall etc) low / (of rank) inferior (to); lower (than)
HSK 4
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  *堵* | 堵* | *堵
to block up (a road, pipe etc) / to stop up (a hole) / (fig.) (of a person) choked up with anxiety or stress / wall (literary) / (classifier for walls)
HSK 4
wall
HSK 5
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *漆* | 漆* | *漆
paint / lacquer / CL: / to paint (furniture, walls etc)
HSK 7-9
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  *磚* | 磚* | *磚
brick / tile (floor or wall, not roof) / CL: 塊|块
HSK 7-9
perimeter wall / fence / CL:
HSK 7-9
city wall
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *壁* | 壁* | *壁
wall / rampart
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *郭* | 郭* | *郭
outer city wall
to face the wall / to sit facing the wall in meditation (Buddhism) / (fig.) to devote oneself to study, work etc
(military) ladder used for scaling the walls of a fortified place (i.e. for escalading) in ancient times / firefighters' extension ladder / stone steps on a mountain
Badaling, a particular section of the Great Wall that is a favorite tourist destination
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *廉* | 廉* | *廉
incorruptible / honest / inexpensive / to investigate (old) / side wall of a traditional Chinese house (old)
Jiayu Pass in Gansu, at the western terminus of the Great Wall
crenelated parapet wall
corner (between walls)
the surface of a wall (esp. an interior wall)
fortresses and mountains (along the Great Wall) / one's hometown
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *堭* | 堭* | *堭
a dry moat outside a city wall / a dry ditch
roof / topmost part / top (of tree, wall etc) / apex
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *垣* | 垣* | *垣
wall
to wiggle / to squirm / peristalsis (wave movement of gut wall)
hill cemetery / graveyard / grave / grave mound / low wall at the back of a traditional tomb
Wall Street, New York / by extension, American big business
wall lamp / bracket light / CL: 盞|盏
to close by coming together (like the lips of a wound, the doors of an elevator, the walls of a channel) / to close by connecting in a loop (like a circuit) / closed-loop
corner (junction of two walls)
lit. Buddha jumps over the wall, name for a Chinese dish that uses many non-vegetarian ingredients
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *埤* | 埤* | *埤
low wall
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *堳* | 堳* | *堳
low wall
partition / to stand between / wall or fence serving as partition
wall clock
moat (surrounding the city wall)
(usu. of a structural component of a building) to bear a load / load-bearing (wall, pillar etc)
to be revealed / to come out (of the truth) / chalk (for whitening walls) / (old) wine cup / (neologism c. 2021) healthcare worker or volunteer in full-body PPE (esp. during the COVID-19 pandemic) (from the 2014 Disney version of the Marvel Comics character Baymax, whose Chinese name is 大白)
wall chart
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *廧* | 廧* | *廧
wall
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *塓* | 塓* | *塓
to plaster / whitewash (wall)
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *埲* | 埲* | *埲
used in 塕埲 / (Cantonese) classifier for walls
the Great Wall
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *匾* | 匾* | *匾
horizontal rectangular inscribed tablet hung over a door or on a wall / shallow round woven bamboo basket
encircling the city (of walls, ring road etc) / around the city
wall calendar
lit. when a wall is about to collapse, everybody gives it a shove (idiom) / fig. everybody hits a man who is down
copper wall, iron bastion (idiom); impenetrable defense
a cornered dog will jump over the wall (idiom) / to be driven to desperate action
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *蘚* | 蘚* | *蘚
moss / lichen / moss on damp walls / used erroneously for 蘇|苏
lit. to penetrate into a bull's horn (idiom); fig. to waste time on an insoluble or insignificant problem / to bash one's head against a brick wall / a wild goose chase / a blind alley / to split hairs
foot of a wall
soldiers at the city walls (idiom); fig. at a critical juncture
wall scroll (for painting or calligraphy) / banner
lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom) / fig. scene of devastation / ruins
lit. secure as a city protected by a wall of metal and a moat of boiling water (idiom) / fig. well fortified; invulnerable to attack
lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom) / fig. scene of devastation / ruins
to point a brick wall / to grout a tiled surface
whitewashed wall / to whitewash a wall
lit. the red apricot tree leans over the garden wall (idiom) / fig. a wife having an illicit lover
Berlin Wall
(literary) screen wall shielding an entrance in traditional Chinese architecture
wall newspaper
a narrow street (lined with walls) / to line the street
cat burglar / burglar who gains entrance by scaling walls / intruding enemy airman / air marauder
wall newspaper
cell wall
lit. until you reach the Great Wall, you're not a proper person; fig. to get over difficulties before reaching the goal
the walls have ears (idiom)
niche (in a wall)
tariff wall
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *壖* | 壖* | *壖
land on water edge or under wall
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *廆* | 廆* | *廆
a room / the wall of a house / a man's name
Qin general Meng Tian (-210 BC), involved in 215 BC in fighting the Northern Xiongnu 匈奴 and building the great wall
crenelated parapet wall
next door / partition wall
to hit a wall / (fig.) to hit a brick wall; to hit a snag; to have the door slammed in one's face
Democracy Wall, Beijing (1978-1979), and bulletin boards inspired by it, in some Hong Kong universities
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *閬* | 閬* | *閬
(literary) vast; spacious / (literary) lofty / (literary) tall door / (literary) dry moat outside a city wall
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *塱* | 塱* | *塱
raised bank / mud wall
board (attached to a wall)
a second wall built around a city wall
unplastered masonry wall
Wailing Wall, or Western Wall (Jerusalem)
territories beyond the Great Wall (old)
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *闤* | 闤* | *闤
wall around a market place
(of cliffs etc) stand like a wall / rise steeply
human barricade; (soccer) defensive wall
a low stone wall built along the water's edge to protect an embankment / revetment
Juyongguan, frontier fortress on Great Wall north of Beijing, in Changping district 昌平區|昌平区
parapet / defensive wall / breastwork
lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom) / fig. scene of devastation / ruins
tapestry (used as a wall hanging)
lit. pull down the east wall to repair the west (idiom); fig. temporary expedient / Rob Peter to pay Paul
a screen wall across the gate of a house (for privacy)
to look askance / cross or wall-eyed
lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom) / fig. scene of devastation / ruins
territories beyond the Great Wall (old)
city wall

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