HSK 6 · Places

宫殿 gōngdiàn “palace” in Chinese

Traditional 宮殿

What 宫殿 means

  1. palace

Measure word 座 zuò · 一座宫殿 yí zuò gōngdiàn

How to say 宫殿

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale宫gōng1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale殿diàn4th tone, falling

宫殿 in a sentence

  1. 他出生在一个宫殿里，那宫殿已经不存在了。

    Tā chūshēng zài yí ge gōngdiàn lǐ, nà gōngdiàn yǐjīng bù cúnzài le.

    He was born in a palace that no longer exists.

    Sentence #6082528 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 宫殿 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 宫 (gōng) with each of its parts in a different colour
宫gōngpalace
  • 宀roof · miánMeaning part
  • 吕a musical note · lǚSound part

宀 hints at the meaning (roof); 吕 (lǚ) hints at the sound. Compare it with gōng.

The character 殿 (diàn) with each of its parts in a different colour
殿diànpalace hall
  • 尸corpse · shī
  • 共all · gòng
  • 殳weapon · shū

How to write 宫殿

宫 9 strokes · 殿 13 strokes

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宫殿 (gōngdiàn) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 宫殿 (gōngdiàn). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

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FAQs

宫殿 (gōngdiàn) means “palace”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it gōngdiàn: gōng with a 1st tone, then diàn with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 宫殿 is written 宮殿. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 座 (zuò). For example, one palace is 一座宫殿 (yí zuò gōngdiàn).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type gongdian with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 宫殿 from the suggestions. Typing gongdian into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
宫殿 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.