HSK 6 · Function Words

幢 zhuàng “(measure word for buildings)” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 幢 means

  1. (measure word for buildings)
  2. classifier for buildings

How to say 幢

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale幢zhuàng4th tone, falling

幢 in a sentence

  1. 我一个人住在这幢房子里。

    Wǒ yí ge rén zhù zài zhè zhuàng fángzi lǐ.

    I live in this house by myself.

    Sentence #380729 from Tatoeba

  2. 我的办公室在那幢灰色的六层楼的四楼。

    Wǒ de bàngōngshì zài nà zhuàng huīsè de liù céng lóu de sì lóu.

    My office is on the fourth floor of that grey six-storey building.

    Sentence #8500070 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 那幢绿色屋顶的建筑是什么？

    Nà zhuàng lǜsè wūdǐng de jiànzhù shì shénme?

    What’s that building with the green roof?

    Sentence #904472 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 幢 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 幢 (zhuàng) with each of its parts in a different colour
幢zhuàngclassifier for buildings
  • 巾napkin · jīnMeaning part
  • 童child · tóngSound part

巾 hints at the meaning (napkin); 童 (tóng) hints at the sound. Compare it with zhuàng.

How to write 幢

幢 15 strokes

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

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

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FAQs

幢 (zhuàng) means “(measure word for buildings)” or “classifier for buildings”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it zhuàng: zhuàng with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 幢 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zhuang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 幢 from the suggestions. Typing zhuang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
幢 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.