墙 (牆) qiáng
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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') -
qiáng
noun
fence
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '牆' 1a, p. 364) -
qiáng
noun
funerary curtain
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Around the coffin (Kroll 2015 '牆' 2, p. 364)
Contained in
- 狗急跳墙(狗急跳牆) a cornered dog will jump over the wall; to be driven to desperate action
- 山墙(山牆) a gable; a pediment
- 铜墙铁壁(銅牆鐵壁) copper wall, iron bastion; impenetrable defense
- 花墙头(花牆頭) an open screen window
- 墙纸(牆紙) wallpaper
- 墙外行人(牆外行人) outside the wall a traveller passes
- 护土墙(護土牆) retaining wall
- 墙根(牆根) foot of a wall
- 三角墙(三角牆) a gable; a pediment
- 挖墙脚(挖牆腳) to undermine; to let someone down; to seduce someone away from something
- 粉墙(粉牆) whitewashed wall; plastered wall
- 墙角(牆角) corner [of two walls]
- 墙外道(牆外道) beyond the wall there is a trail
- 墙脚(牆腳) wall foundation
- 墙垣(牆垣) a wall; a fence
- 彫墙(彫牆) a wall decorated with carved pictures
- 引水入墙(引水入牆) to lead the water through the wall; to ask for trouble
- 没有不透风的墙(沒有不透風的牆) no secret can be kept forever
- 圜墙(圜牆) enclosure wall; prison
- 红杏出墙(紅杏出牆) the red apricot tree leans over the garden wall; a wife having an illicit lover
- 混水墙(混水牆) plastered masonry wall
- 浮雕墙纸(浮雕牆紙) anaglypta (sculptured wallpaper)
- 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
- 挡风墙(擋風牆) lit. windbreak; fig. protector
- 砖墙(磚牆) a brick wall
- 泥墙(泥牆) adobe wall
- 墙宇(牆宇) building ; personal manner
- 墙壁(牆壁) wall
- 墙外汉(牆外漢) outsider
- 墙面(牆面) face of a wall ; no skill or culture
- 兄弟阋墙(兄弟鬩牆) fighting among one's own
- 矮墙浅屋(矮牆淺屋) a low wall and shallow room; a small dwelling
- 烂泥扶不上墙(爛泥扶不上牆) useless ; worthless; inept
- 砌墙(砌牆) to construct a wall
- 糊墙纸(糊牆紙) wallpaper
- 飞墙走壁(飛牆走壁) running up and over the wall as if flying
- 爬墙(爬牆) to climb a wall; (fig.) to be unfaithful
- 土墙(土牆) earth 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
- 筑土墙(築土牆) rammed earth wall
- 垣墙(垣牆) a perimeter wall
- 民主墙(民主牆) Democracy Wall
- 骑墙(騎牆) to sit on the fence; to take both sides in a dispute
- 听墙面(聽牆面) surface of wall
- 堵墙(堵牆) perimeter wall
- 隔墙有耳(隔牆有耳) the walls have ears
- 人墙(人牆) wall
- 萧墙(蕭牆) screen wall shielding an entrance in traditional Chinese architecture
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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
- 第七十三回 Chapter 73 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 6
- 第八十一回 Chapter 81 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 6
- 第二回 Chapter 17 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 6
- 卷四十七 志第二十三 禮一 Volume 47 Treatises 23: Rites 1 History of Ming 明史 — 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
- 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
- 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
- 墙门 (牆門) 周還牆門 — Mozi 墨子, 卷十五 號令 Book 15 - Commands and Orders — 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
- 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
- 修墙 (修牆) 修牆屋 — Guanzi 管子, 五輔第十 Chapter 10: Wu Fu — 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