堆
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to pile up; to heap up; a mass; pile; heap; stack; large amount
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Dict coverage rank #1,399 U+5806
How 堆 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
土 (semantic, “earth”) + 隹 (phonetic, zhuī)
How to remember it
pile · Heisig RSH #1765
土 soil + turkey
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 隹
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 隹 (zhuī) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 隹 sound component | zhuī | short-tailed bird; sparrow |
| 维 | wéi | to preserve, to maintain, to hold together |
| 推 | tuī | to push; to expel; to drive; to decline |
| 准 | zhǔn | standard, accurate; to permit, to approve, to allow |
| 锥 | zhuī | gimlet, drill, awl; to drill, to bore |
| 淮 | huái | a river in Anhui province |
| 椎 | zhuī | spine, vertebra; hammer, mallet |
| 稚 | zhì | young, immature; childhood |
| 谁 | shéi | who? whom? whose? anyone? |
| 濯 | zhuó | to cleanse, to rinse, to wash out |
| 睢 | suī | to gaze at, to stare at; uninhibited |
| 帷 | wéi | curtain, screen, tent |
| 擢 | zhuó | to pull up, to raise; to select |
| 槜 | zuì | white plum |
| 骓 | zhuī | piebald horse |
| 碓 | duì | pestle |
| 萑 | huán | grass, hay, straw |
Words containing 堆
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 动力反应堆 | dòng lì fǎn yìng duī | power reactor |
| 重水反应堆 | zhòng shuǐ fǎn yìng duī | heavy water reactor (HWR) |
| 原子反应堆 | yuán zǐ fǎn yìng duī | atomic reactor |
| 生产反应堆 | shēng chǎn fǎn yìng duī | production reactor |
| 气冷式反应堆 | qì lěng shì fǎn yìng duī | gas-cooled reactor |
| 热核反应堆 | rè hé fǎn yìng duī | thermal reactor |
| 堆高机 | duī gāo jī | forklift |
| 面心立方最密堆积 | miàn xīn lì fāng zuì mì duī jī | face-centered cubic (FCC) (math.) |
| 轻水反应堆 | qīng shuǐ fǎn yìng duī | light water reactor (LWR) |
| 堆高车 | duī gāo chē | high-lift pallet truck; pallet stacker |
| 堆龙德庆区 | Duī lóng dé qìng Qū | Doilungdêqên, a district of Lhasa City 拉薩市|拉萨市[La1 sa4 Shi4], Tibet |
| 三星堆 | Sān xīng duī | archaeological site of Sanxingdui outside Chengdu (Sichuan), exhibiting remarkable bronze … |
| 核反应堆 | hé fǎn yìng duī | nuclear reactor |
| 原子堆 | yuán zǐ duī | atomic pile (original form of nuclear reactor) |
| 堆积如山 | duī jī rú shān | to pile up like a mountain (idiom); a mountain of (paperwork etc); a large number of sth |
| 马王堆 | Mǎ Wáng duī | Mawangdui in Changsha, Hunan, a recent Han dynasty archaeological site |
| 堆金积玉 | duī jīn jī yù | lit. pile up gold and jade; very rich |
| 反应堆 | fǎn yìng duī | reactor |
| 堆龙德庆 | Duī lóng dé qìng | see 堆龍德慶區|堆龙德庆区[Dui1 long2 de2 qing4 Qu1] |
| 一堆 | yī duī | pile; heap; a lot of; a bunch of |