HSK 5 · Objects

墙 qiáng “wall” in Chinese

Traditional 牆

What 墙 means

  1. wall

How to say 墙

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale墙qiáng2nd tone, rising

墙 in a sentence

  1. 地图挂在墙上。

    Dìtú guà zài qiáng shàng.

    The map is hanging on the wall.

    Sentence #8869384 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 她用绘画来装饰墙。

    Tā yòng huìhuà lái zhuāngshì qiáng.

    She decorated the wall with paintings.

    Sentence #358132 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 你从来不听，就好像我是在跟一堵墙说话。

    Nǐ cónglái bù tīng, jiù hǎoxiàng wǒ shì zài gēn yì dǔ qiáng shuōhuà.

    You never listen – it’s like talking to a brick wall.

    Sentence #346780 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 墙 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 墙 (qiáng) with each of its parts in a different colour
墙qiángwall
  • 土earth · tǔMeaning part
  • 啬miserly · sèSound part

土 hints at the meaning (earth); 啬 (sè) hints at the sound. Compare it with qiáng.

How to write 墙

墙 14 strokes

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

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

Words related to 墙

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FAQs

墙 (qiáng) means “wall”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it qiáng: qiáng 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, 墙 is written 牆. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type qiang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 墙 from the suggestions. Typing qiang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
墙 is an HSK 5 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.