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  *牆* | 牆* | *牆
wall (CL:,) / (slang) to block (a website) (usu. in the passive: 被牆|被墙)
HSK 2
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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
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  *城* | 城* | *城
city walls / city / town / CL: , , 個|个
HSK 3
the Great Wall
HSK 3
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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
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  *矮* | 矮* | *矮
(of a person) short / (of a wall etc) low / (of rank) inferior (to); lower (than)
HSK 4
wall
HSK 5
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  *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
city wall
HSK 7-9
perimeter wall / fence / CL:
HSK 7-9
Kowloon Walled City
Berlin Wall
lit. to pierce the wall to steal a light (idiom) / fig. to study diligently in the face of hardship
the area north of the Great Wall
Badaling, a particular section of the Great Wall that is a favorite tourist destination
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  *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
fortresses and mountains (along the Great Wall) / one's hometown
roof / topmost part / top (of tree, wall etc) / apex
walled-in path / paved pathway / canopied passageway / corridor / tunnel
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  *垣* | 垣* | *垣
wall
a screen wall across the gate of a house (for privacy)
to climb a wall / (fig.) to be unfaithful
corner (between walls)
the surface of a wall (esp. an interior wall)
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
lit. Buddha jumps over the wall, name for a Chinese dish that uses many non-vegetarian ingredients
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  *埤* | 埤* | *埤
low wall
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  *堳* | 堳* | *堳
low wall
wall clock
moat (surrounding the city wall)
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  *壁* | 壁* | *壁
wall / rampart
(usu. of a structural component of a building) to bear a load / load-bearing (wall, pillar etc)
to wiggle / to squirm / peristalsis (wave movement of gut wall)
wall chart
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  *廧* | 廧* | *廧
wall
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  *埲* | 埲* | *埲
used in 塕埲 / (Cantonese) classifier for walls
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  *塓* | 塓* | *塓
to plaster / whitewash (wall)
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  *楨* | 楨* | *楨
(old) privet (genus Ligustrum) / (bound form) (old) wooden support placed at the ends of a wall during construction; (fig.) mainstay; pillar; backbone
the Great Wall
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  *匾* | 匾* | *匾
horizontal rectangular inscribed tablet hung over a door or on a wall / shallow round woven bamboo basket
partition / to stand between / wall or fence serving as partition
corner (junction of two walls)
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
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
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)
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. the red apricot tree leans over the garden wall (idiom) / fig. a wife having an illicit lover
lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom) / fig. scene of devastation / ruins
cat burglar / burglar who gains entrance by scaling walls / intruding enemy airman / air marauder
to point a brick wall / to grout a tiled surface
(literary) screen wall shielding an entrance in traditional Chinese architecture
wall newspaper
wall newspaper
crenelated parapet wall
cell wall
lit. until you reach the Great Wall, you're not a proper person; fig. to get over difficulties before reaching the goal
wall calendar
tariff wall
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  *廆* | 廆* | *廆
a room / the wall of a house / a man's name
(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
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  *蘚* | 蘚* | *蘚
moss / lichen / moss on damp walls / used erroneously for 蘇|苏
crenelated parapet wall
Berlin Wall
lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom) / fig. scene of devastation / ruins
hill cemetery / graveyard / grave / grave mound / low wall at the back of a traditional tomb
to hit a wall / (fig.) to hit a brick wall; to hit a snag; to have the door slammed in one's face
(of cliffs etc) stand like a wall / rise steeply
Democracy Wall, Beijing (1978-1979), and bulletin boards inspired by it, in some Hong Kong universities
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  *塱* | 塱* | *塱
raised bank / mud wall
a low stone wall built along the water's edge to protect an embankment / revetment
a second wall built around a city wall
unplastered masonry wall
human barricade; (soccer) defensive wall
Wailing Wall, or Western Wall (Jerusalem)
(old) territories beyond the Great Wall
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  *闤* | 闤* | *闤
wall around a market place
moss under old walls
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
to face the wall / to sit facing the wall in meditation (Buddhism) / (fig.) to devote oneself to study, work etc
(old) territories north of the Great Wall
high walls and deep moat (idiom); impenetrable defense
to make a last-ditch stand before the city wall (idiom); to fight to the last ditch / to put up a desperate struggle
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  *郭* | 郭* | *郭
outer city wall
collapsed wall / ruined wall
lit. with only four bare walls for a home (idiom) / fig. very poor / wretched
(of clothing, furniture, walls etc) to get damp (by absorbing moisture from the air or the ground)
facing a wall, an imaginary construction (idiom); baseless fabrication
dilapidated wall / to break through a wall / (fig.) to break through / (biotechnology) to disrupt cell walls / cell disruption
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  *墉* | 墉* | *墉
fortified wall / city wall
lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom) / fig. scene of devastation / ruins
a city wall

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