HSK 6 · Ideas

布局 bùjú “layout” in Chinese

Traditional 佈局

What 布局 means

  1. layout
  2. arrangement
  3. composition
  4. opening (chess jargon)

How to say 布局

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale布bù4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale局jú2nd tone, rising

布局 in a sentence

  1. 我改了一下我的网站的布局。

    Wǒ gǎi le yíxià wǒ de wǎngzhàn de bùjú.

    I’ve changed the layout of my website.

    Sentence #1772669 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 他家的布局非常温馨。

    Tā jiā de bùjú fēicháng wēnxīn.

    His home is laid out in a very cosy way.

    Sentence #13881215 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 布局 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 布 (bù) drawn as one shape
布bùto announce

布 is a single shape of 5 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

The character 局 (jú) with each of its parts in a different colour
局júnarrow
  • 尺part of the character
  • 口mouth · kǒu

How to write 布局

布 5 strokes · 局 7 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

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

Words related to 布局

Words with 布

布bù · cloth公布gōngbù · to announce宣布xuānbù · to declare分布fēnbù · to be distributed (over an area)遍布biànbù · to be found everywhere布置bùzhì · to arrange散布sànbù · to spread颁布bānbù · to promulgate布告bùgào · notice发布fābù · to release

Words with 局

邮局yóujú · post office格局géjú · structure结局jiéjú · ending局部júbù · part局面júmiàn · situation局势júshì · situation (esp. political or military)局限júxiàn · to limit全局quánjú · overall situation公安局gōng'ānjú · public security bureau

More words: Ideas & Concepts

比方bǐfang · example比喻bǐyù · metaphor比重bǐzhòng · proportion步伐bùfá · pace不言而喻bùyán'éryù · self-evident不择手段bùzéshǒuduàn · by any means necessary策略cèlüè · strategy侧面cèmiàn · side

FAQs

布局 (bùjú) means “layout” or “arrangement”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it bùjú: bù with a 4th tone, then jú with a 2nd 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, 布局 is written 佈局. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type buju with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 布局 from the suggestions. Typing buju into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
布局 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.