墙
wall (CL:面[mian4],堵[du3]); (slang) to block (a website) (usu. in the passive: 被牆|被墙[bei4 qiang2])
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Dict coverage rank #1,200 U+5899
How 墙 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
土 (semantic, “earth”) + 啬 (phonetic, sè)
How to remember it
wall · Heisig RSH #1781
土 soil + animal horns + 回 return
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 啬
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 啬 (sè) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 啬 sound component | sè | miserly, stingy, thrifty |
| 蔷 | qiáng | rose |
| 樯 | qiáng | mast, boom, yard-arm |
| 穑 | sè | to farm, to harvest grain |
| 嫱 | qiáng | lady |
Words containing 墙
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 不撞南墙不回头 | bù zhuàng nán qiáng bù huí tóu | to stubbornly insist on one's own ideas (idiom) |
| 空心墙 | kōng xīn qiáng | cavity wall; hollow wall |
| 民主墙 | Mín zhǔ qiáng | Democracy Wall, Beijing (1978–1979); bulletin boards modeled on it in some Hong Kong unive… |
| 清水墙 | qīng shuǐ qiáng | unplastered masonry wall |
| 没有不透风的墙 | méi yǒu bù tòu fēng de qiáng | (idiom) no secret can be kept forever |
| 女儿墙 | nǚ ér qiáng | crenelated parapet wall |
| 墙头草 | qiáng tóu cǎo | sb who goes whichever way the wind blows; sb with no mind of their own; easily swayed pers… |
| 引水入墙 | yǐn shuǐ rù qiáng | lit. to lead the water through the wall; to ask for trouble (idiom) |
| 听墙根儿 | tīng qiáng gēn r | erhua variant of 聽牆根|听墙根[ting1 qiang2 gen1] |
| 墙倒众人推 | qiáng dǎo zhòng rén tuī | lit. when a wall is about to collapse, everybody gives it a shove (idiom); fig. everybody … |
| 第四面墙 | dì sì miàn qiáng | the fourth wall (in theater, TV, film etc) |
| 防火墙 | fáng huǒ qiáng | firewall |
| 人墙 | rén qiáng | human barricade; (soccer) defensive wall |
| 山墙 | shān qiáng | gable |
| 西墙 | Xī qiáng | Western Wall, or Wailing Wall (Jerusalem) |
| 墙面 | qiáng miàn | the surface of a wall (esp. an interior wall) |
| 城墙 | chéng qiáng | city wall |
| 外墙 | wài qiáng | facade; external wall |
| 火墙 | huǒ qiáng | firewall |
| 隔墙有耳 | gé qiáng yǒu ěr | the walls have ears (idiom) |