The hallway needs to be wide enough for a wheelchair.
Sentence #9584511 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters
How 走廊 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.
走zǒuto walk
土earth · tǔ
止stop · zhǐ
Memory aidOnce drawn as a person swinging their arms above a foot 止: to run. Today it means “to walk”.
廊lángcorridor
广shelter · guǎngMeaning part
郎gentleman · lángSound part
广 hints at the meaning (shelter); 郎 (láng) hints at the sound. Compare it with láng.
How to write 走廊
走 7 strokes · 廊 11 strokes
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Stroke order chart for 走廊 (zǒuláng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.
走廊 (zǒuláng) means “corridor” or “hallway”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it zǒuláng: zǒu with a 3rd tone, then láng with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 走廊 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zoulang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 走廊 from the suggestions. Typing zoulang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
走廊 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.
走zǒu3rd tone, dipping
廊láng2nd tone, rising
