厦
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(bound form) tall building; mansion; (bound form) rear annex; lean-to; Taiwan pr. [xia4]
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How 厦 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
厂 (semantic, “building”) + 夏 (phonetic, xià)
How to remember it
skyscraper · Heisig RSH #1631
cliff + 夏 summer
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 夏
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 夏 (xià) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 夏 sound component | xià | summer; the Xia or Hsia dynasty |
| 嗄 | shà | hoarse |
Words containing 厦
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 国会大厦 | guó huì dà shà | capitol |
| 厦门大学 | Xià mén Dà xué | Xiamen University |
| 机场大厦 | jī chǎng dà shà | airport terminal |
| 五角大厦 | Wǔ jiǎo Dà shà | (Tw) the Pentagon |
| 多层大厦 | duō céng dà shà | multistory building |
| 摩天大厦 | mó tiān dà shà | skyscraper; CL:座[zuo4] |
| 高楼大厦 | gāo lóu dà shà | tall building |
| 帝国大厦 | Dì guó Dà shà | Empire State Building (New York City) |
| 厦门市 | Xià mén Shì | Xiamen, sub-provincial city in Fujian Province 福建省[Fu2 jian4 Sheng3] |
| 纽约帝国大厦 | Niǔ yuē Dì guó Dà shà | Empire State Building |
| 购物大厦 | gòu wù dà shà | shopping mall |
| 世贸大厦 | Shì mào Dà shà | World Trade Center |
| 大厦将倾 | dà shà jiāng qīng | great mansion on the verge of collapse (idiom); hopeless situation |
| 金茂大厦 | Jīn mào Dà shà | Jin Mao Tower, skyscraper in Shanghai |
| 大厦 | dà shà | (used in the names of grand buildings such as 百老匯大廈|百老汇大厦 Broadway Mansions (in Shanghai) … |
| 厦门 | Xià mén | see 廈門市|厦门市[Xia4 men2 Shi4] |
| 航厦 | háng shà | (Tw) airport terminal |
| 偏厦 | piān shà | side annex; lean-to |
| 噶厦 | gá xià | government of Tibet, dissolved in 1959 |