桩
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stump; stake; pile; classifier for events, cases, transactions, affairs etc
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Dict coverage rank #2,473 U+6869
How 桩 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
木 (semantic, “wood”) + 庄 (phonetic, zhuāng)
How to remember it
stake · Heisig RSH #1789
木 tree + 庄 hamlet
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 庄
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 庄 (zhuāng) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 庄 sound component | zhuāng | village, hamlet; villa, manor |
| 脏 | zāng | organs, viscera; dirty, filthy |
| 赃 | zāng | booty, loot; stolen goods; to bribe |
Words containing 桩
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 小事一桩 | xiǎo shì yī zhuāng | trivial matter; a piece of cake |
| 打桩机 | dǎ zhuāng jī | pile driver (machinery) |
| 宁拆十座庙，不毁一桩婚 | nìng chāi shí zuò miào , bù huǐ yī zhuāng hūn | rather destroy ten temples than a single marriage (idiom) |
| 充电桩 | chōng diàn zhuāng | electric vehicle charging point; EV charger |
| 打桩 | dǎ zhuāng | to drive piles into |
| 路桩 | lù zhuāng | bollard |
| 桩构栈道 | zhuāng gòu zhàn dào | pile trestle |
| 木桩 | mù zhuāng | wooden pile; stake |
| 基桩 | jī zhuāng | foundation piles |
| 板桩 | bǎn zhuāng | sheet pile |
| 桩脚 | zhuāng jiǎo | pier foundation (architecture); (Tw) politically influential figure enlisted to support on… |
| 树桩 | shù zhuāng | tree stump |
| 标桩 | biāo zhuāng | (marking) stake |
| 界桩 | jiè zhuāng | boundary marker; boundary post; boundary pillar |
| 件件桩桩 | jiàn jiàn zhuāng zhuāng | see 樁樁件件|桩桩件件[zhuang1 zhuang1 jian4 jian4] |
| 桩桩件件 | zhuāng zhuāng jiàn jiàn | each and every one |
| 暗桩 | àn zhuāng | submerged piles installed to prevent the passage of boats; (fig.) informer; spy |
| 绑桩 | bǎng zhuāng | (Tw) to buy off influential people (in an election, a call for tenders etc) |
| 缆桩 | lǎn zhuāng | mooring bollard |