楼 樓
楼樓 in English
- house with more than 1 story / storied building / floor / CL:層|层[ceng2],座[zuo4],棟|栋[dong4]
Measure word
- 栋 dòng classifier for houses or buildings; ridgepole (old) attested
- 座 zuò seat; base; stand; (bound form) constellation; (archaic) suffix used in a respectful form of address (e.g... attested
- 层 céng to pile on top of one another; layer; stratum; floor (of a building); story; (math.) sheaf; classifier for layers attested
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
These are the forms of 樓, the traditional character: 楼 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Clerical script 東漢 - See all 4 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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一个陌生人进了大楼。
A stranger came into the building.
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上楼。
Go up the stairs.
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上楼把我的旅行箱拿下来。
Go upstairs and bring down my trunk.
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从窗户可以看见高楼。
The high building can be seen from the window.
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他们从地下室到阁楼都打扫了。
They cleaned everything, from the basement to the attic.
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他把车停在大楼前。
He parked his car in front of the building.
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你不应该在学校大楼里奔跑。
You must not run in the school buildings.
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你住在哪层楼？
What floor do you live on?