墙 (牆) qiáng

1. qiáng noun wall
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '牆'; Guoyu '牆' n; Kroll 2015 '牆' 1, p. 364; Mathews 1931 '牆', p. 92; Unihan '牆')
2. qiáng noun fence
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '牆' 1a, p. 364)
3. qiáng noun funerary curtain
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: Around the coffin (Kroll 2015 '牆' 2, p. 364)

Contained in

• 墙外汉(牆外漢) outsider
• 胸墙(胸牆) parapet; defensive wall; breastwork
• 墙垣(牆垣) a wall; a fence
• 挖墙脚(挖牆腳) to undermine; to let someone down; to seduce someone away from something
• 三角墙(三角牆) a gable; a pediment
• 墙脚(牆腳) wall foundation
• 城墙(城牆) a city wall
• 护土墙(護土牆) retaining wall
• 砖墙(磚牆) a brick wall
• 墙壁(牆壁) wall
• 护墙(護牆) parapets
• 人墙(人牆) wall
• 粉墙(粉牆) whitewashed wall; plastered wall
• 墙宇(牆宇) building ; personal manner
• 混水墙(混水牆) plastered masonry wall
• 花墙头(花牆頭) an open screen window
• 矮墙浅屋(矮牆淺屋) a low wall and shallow room; a small dwelling
• 没有不透风的墙(沒有不透風的牆) no secret can be kept forever
• 石膏墙板(石膏牆板) drywall; gypsum wallboard; plasterboard
• 火墙(火牆) firewall
• 墙面(牆面) face of a wall ; no skill or culture
• 山形墙(山形牆) a gable; a pediment
• 堵墙(堵牆) perimeter wall
• 女墙(女牆) parapet ; courtyard perimeter wall
• 墙根(牆根) foot of a wall
• 筑土墙(築土牆) rammed earth wall
• 听墙根(聽牆根) to eavesdrop; to listen in secret to somebody's conversations
• 山墙(山牆) a gable; a pediment
• 矮墙(矮牆) a low perimeter wall
• 拆东墙补西墙(拆東牆補西牆) pull down the east wall to repair the west wall; temporary expedient; Rob Peter to pay Paul
• 砌墙(砌牆) to construct a wall
• 女儿墙(女兒牆) crenelated parapet wall
• 糊墙(糊牆) to paper a wall
• 墙头草(牆頭草) sb who goes whichever way the wind blows; somebody with no mind of one's own; easily swayed person
• 墙外行人(牆外行人) outside the wall a traveller passes
• 铜墙铁壁(銅牆鐵壁) copper wall, iron bastion; impenetrable defense
• 兄弟阋墙(兄弟鬩牆) fighting among one's own
• 隔墙有耳(隔牆有耳) the walls have ears
• 圜墙(圜牆) enclosure wall; prison
• 引水入墙(引水入牆) to lead the water through the wall; to ask for trouble
• 彫墙(彫牆) a wall decorated with carved pictures
• 碑墙(碑牆) a commemorative wall
• 清水墙(清水牆) unplastered masonry wall
• 爬墙(爬牆) to climb a wall; (fig.) to be unfaithful
• 兄弟阋于墙，外御其侮(兄弟鬩於墻，外禦其侮) internal disunity dissolves at the threat of an invasion from outside
• 土墙(土牆) earth wall
• 狗急跳墙(狗急跳牆) a cornered dog will jump over the wall; to be driven to desperate action

Also contained in

付费墙 、 西墙 、 哭墙 、 柏林墙

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 卷六 Scroll 6 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 10
• 第二回 Chapter 117 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 10
• 第一百三回 Chapter 103 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 9
• 第七回 Chapter 7 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 7
• 卷八十四 志第六十 河渠二 Volume 84 Treatises 60: Rivers and Canals 2 History of Ming 明史 — count: 7
• 第十六回 Chapter 16 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 7
• 卷四十七 志第二十三 禮一 Volume 47 Treatises 23: Rites 1 History of Ming 明史 — count: 6
• 第八十一回 Chapter 81 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 6
• 第七十三回 Chapter 73 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 6
• 第二回 Chapter 17 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 6

Collocations

• 墙屋 (牆屋) 徹我牆屋 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧節南山之什‧十月之交 Minor odes of the kingdom - Jie Nan Shan Zhi Shen - Shi Yue Zhi Jiao — count: 6
• 踰墙 (踰牆) 公踰牆 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 5
• 墙坏 (牆壞) 隙大則牆壞 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十七　說林訓 Chapter 17: A Forest of Persuasion — count: 4
• 东墙 (東牆) 其土地宜穄及東牆 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷九十 烏桓鮮卑列傳 Volume 90: Treatise on the Wuhuan, Xianbei — count: 4
• 窥墙 (窺牆) 旁鄰窺牆而問之 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷十三 權謀 Chapter 13: Tactics — count: 4
• 丰墙 (豐牆) 豐牆磽下未必崩也 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷三 建本 Chapter 3: Building a Foundation — count: 3
• 雕墙 (雕牆) 昔晉靈公多賦以雕牆 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷四十九 王充王符仲長統列傳 Volume 49: Biographies of Wang Chong, Wang Fu, Zhongchang Tong — count: 3
• 庭墙 (庭牆) 立依於庭牆而哭 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 定公 Lord Ding — count: 3
• 修墙 (修牆) 修牆屋 — Guanzi 管子, 五輔第十 Chapter 10: Wu Fu — count: 3
• 墙门 (牆門) 周還牆門 — Mozi 墨子, 卷十五 號令 Book 15 - Commands and Orders — count: 3