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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *樓* | 樓* | *樓
house with more than 1 story / storied building / floor / CL: 層|层, , 棟|栋
HSK 1
upstairs / (Internet slang) previous poster in a forum thread
HSK 1
downstairs
HSK 1
school building; academic building
HSK 1
to go upstairs
HSK 4
building (a relatively large, multistory one) / CL: ,
HSK 4
stair / staircase / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
to go downstairs
HSK 4
a building of two or more stories / CL: 棟|栋, ,
HSK 6
corridor / passageway (in storied building)
HSK 6
office building
HSK 6
restaurant
HSK 7-9
apartment building / residential tower
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *樓* | 樓* | *樓
surname Lou
Chihkan Tower (formerly Fort Provintia) in Tainan, Taiwan (also written 赤嵌樓|赤嵌楼)
corner (between walls)
to jump from a building (to kill oneself) / fig. to sell at a large discount (in advertising)
top of a building
high building / multistory building / skyscraper / CL:
Shilou county in Lüliang 呂梁|吕梁, Shanxi 山西
A Dream of Red Mansions (first completed edition 1791) by Cao Xueqin 曹雪芹, one of the four great novels
original poster (in an online forum) / landlord of a building (traditional)
to take it up a notch / to bring it up a level
floor; story (of a building)
silverware store / jewelry center
garret / loft / attic
arcade (architecture)
teahouse (usu. of two stories)
multistoried building / tower / pagoda
skyscraper / CL:
to fall off or jump off a building
floor / floor (ie. metal plate, concrete slab, wooden planking etc)
floor
skyscraper / CL:
Zhonglou district of Changzhou city 常州市, Jiangsu
bell tower / campanile / clock tower / Bell Tower, historic attraction in Xian, Beijing etc
staircase / flight of stairs
Loulan, aka Kroraina, ancient oasis town on the Silk Road near Lop Nor 羅布泊|罗布泊
(literary) brothel / pleasure quarters
building / pavilion
Gulou, the name of districts in Nanjing (in Jiangsu), Xuzhou (in Jiangsu), Fuzhou (in Fujian) and Kaifeng (in Henan)
tall building
Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan City, built in 223, burnt down in 1884, rebuilt in 1985 / favored place of poet sages, who in legend arrived riding golden cranes / Tang poem by Cui Hao 崔顥|崔颢, with theme 'the past will never return' / one of three famous pagodas in China along with Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓|岳阳楼 in Yueyang, north Hunan, and Tengwang Tower 滕王閣|滕王阁 in Nanchang, Jiangxi
a drum tower / Drum Tower, historic attraction in Xian, Beijing etc
city gate tower
decorated archway
(idiom) (lit. and fig.) mirage
residential building / CL: , , 棟|栋
the Pentagon
multistory building
pavilion in the air (idiom); unrealistic Utopian construction / castles in Spain / imaginary future plans
lit. the occupants have gone and the place is now empty (idiom) / fig. (of a dwelling) empty; deserted
dangerous housing / building that is about to collapse
Shilou county in Lüliang 呂梁|吕梁, Shanxi 山西
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), French realist novelist, author of Madame Bovary
bejeweled jade palace (idiom); sumptuous dwelling
watchtower / lookout tower
to construct a building / (Internet slang) to reply to a thread
tower (of building)
Yueyang Tower, famous beauty spot in Yueyang, north Hunan, overlooking Dongting Lake 洞庭湖 / one of three famous pagodas in China along with Yellow Crane Tower 黃鶴樓|黄鹤楼 in Wuhan, Hubei and Tengwang Tower 滕王閣|滕王阁 in Nanchang, Jiangxi
airport terminal
watch tower / drum tower marking night watches
small ventilation tower on roof of building
watchtower; guard tower / police booth
towering buildings are built up from the ground (idiom) / great oaks from little acorns grow
Yueyang Tower district of Yueyang city 岳陽|岳阳, Hunan
Zhonglou district of Changzhou city 常州市, Jiangsu
ship with several decks / turreted junk
house overhanging a river, supported at the rear by stilts / house built in a hilly area, supported by stilts
watch tower / movable battlefield turret
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)
pavilion / variant of 婁子|娄子
real estate market
building under construction / commercial property / real estate (for sale or rent)
main building
office building
department store
apartment building
to jump to one's death
building
(slang) prostitute who provides services in a private apartment
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo 維克多·雨果|维克多·雨果
apartment building offered for sale before construction is completed / off-plan property
uncompleted building; building whose construction has run into difficulties and stopped
On Yueyang Tower (1046), essay by Song writer Fan Zhongyan 范仲淹
apartment building / CL:
extremely low price / knockdown price
basement level 1; floor B1
lit. a pavilion near the water (idiom); fig. using one's proximity to the powerful to obtain favor
traditional Hakka communal residence in Fujian, typically a large multistory circular structure built around a central shrine
head of a flight of stairs
ground floor; first floor
Chihkan Tower (formerly Fort Provintia) in Tainan, Taiwan (also written 赤崁樓|赤崁楼)
drop tower; free fall tower (amusement ride)
office building / CL: , 棟|栋
World Trade Center (the twin towers destroyed by the 9-11 terrorists)
pavilions and kiosks (in Chinese gardens)

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