HSK 6 · Objects

砖 zhuān “brick” in Chinese

Traditional 磚

What 砖 means

  1. brick
  2. tile (floor or wall, not roof)

Measure word 块 kuài · 一块砖 yí kuài zhuān

How to say 砖

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale砖zhuān1st tone, high and level

砖 in a sentence

  1. 把安全帽戴上。这里很可能会有砖块砸到你头上。

    Bǎ ānquánmào dàishang. Zhèlǐ hěn kěnéng huì yǒu zhuānkuài zá dào nǐ tóushàng.

    Put your hard hat on. Bricks could easily fall on your head here.

    Sentence #13917143 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 砖 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 砖 (zhuān) with each of its parts in a different colour
砖zhuānbrick
  • 石stone · shíMeaning part
  • 专concentrated · zhuānSound part

石 hints at the meaning (stone); 专 (zhuān) hints at the sound. Compare it with zhuān.

How to write 砖

砖 9 strokes

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

Words related to 砖

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FAQs

砖 (zhuān) means “brick” or “tile (floor or wall, not roof)”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it zhuān: zhuān with a 1st 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, 砖 is written 磚. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 块 (kuài). For example, one brick is 一块砖 (yí kuài zhuān).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zhuan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 砖 from the suggestions. Typing zhuan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
砖 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.