垛 meaning and stroke order
Heap, pile; to heap, to pile
How to write 垛, stroke by stroke
9 strokes in order. Each box adds the next stroke in red. Write top to bottom and left to right, and finish enclosing strokes last.
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Meaning of 垛
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, grouped by pronunciation.
- battlement
- target
- variant of 垛[duo3]
- pile
How 垛 is built
Phono-semantic (sound + meaning) character. Earth.
土 gives the meaning and 朵 hints at the sound.
Radical: 土 (soil), shared by 183 characters on this site.
How to remember 垛
垛 is made of 土 (tǔ, earth) plus 朵 (duǒ, a flower or cluster). Picture earth piled up into a rounded cluster like a flower bud, and 朵 also gives the sound duǒ.
Read duò, 垛 means a neat pile or stack, often of hay, wood or bricks, and can also be a verb meaning to stack things up. Read duǒ, it refers to things like battlements on a wall (城垛 chéngduǒ) or a target mound. Example: 院子里有一个草垛。(Yuànzi lǐ yǒu yí gè cǎoduò.) There is a haystack in the yard.
Common mistake: Learners often use only the dictionary tone duǒ, but the pile or stack meaning, as in 草垛 (cǎoduò) and 柴垛 (cháiduò), is usually read duò. Also do not confuse 垛 with 躲 (duǒ, to hide), which has 身 on the left instead of 土.
Questions about 垛
How many strokes are in 垛?
垛 is written with 9 strokes. The diagrams on this page number every stroke in the order it is written, with the new stroke shown in red.
What does 垛 mean?
垛 (duǒ) means heap, pile; to heap, to pile.
How do you pronounce 垛?
垛 is pronounced duǒ, in the third tone (dipping).
What is the radical of 垛?
The radical of 垛 is 土, which carries the idea of "soil". Dictionaries list 垛 under this radical.
What is the traditional form of 垛?
The traditional form of 垛 is 垜. Traditional characters are used in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau; 垛 is the simplified form used in mainland China and Singapore.
How do I know whether to read 垛 as duǒ or duò?
Use duò when it means a pile or stack, or the action of stacking, as in 垛起来 (duò qǐlái). Use duǒ for structural things like battlements, as in 城垛 (chéngduǒ), or a protruding part of a wall, as in 门垛 (ménduǒ).
What is the difference between 垛 and 堆?
堆 (duī) is the general, everyday word for a pile or heap of anything, and it is also a common measure word. 垛 suggests a neater, deliberately stacked pile, especially of hay, firewood or bricks.