厦 廈
厦廈 in English
- (bound form) tall building / mansion / (bound form) rear annex / lean-to / Taiwan pr. [xia4]
- abbr. for Xiamen or Amoy 廈門|厦门[Xia4 men2], Fujian
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 廈, the traditional character: 厦 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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摩天大厦里的电梯是至关重要的。
The elevators in a skyscraper are vital systems.
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那座大厦天台的景色很美的，想去看看嗎？
There's a great view from the rooftop of that building. Want to go see?