墻 meaning and stroke order
Wall
How to write 墻, stroke by stroke
16 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 墻
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, grouped by pronunciation.
- variant of 牆|墙[qiang2]
How 墻 is built
Phono-semantic (sound + meaning) character. Earth.
土 gives the meaning and 嗇 hints at the sound.
Radical: 土 (soil), shared by 183 characters on this site.
How to remember 墻
The earth radical 土 (tǔ) on the left shows what old walls were made of: packed earth. The right part 嗇 (sè) gives the sound, so think of a wall of earth built beside a storehouse.
墻 is a variant form of 牆, and in mainland simplified Chinese the word is written 墙 (qiáng). You will mostly see 墻 in older texts or some traditional-character settings. Example: 墻上有一幅畫。(Qiáng shàng yǒu yì fú huà.) There is a painting on the wall.
Common mistake: Learners sometimes read the phonetic part 嗇 as sè and say the whole character that way, but 墻 is read qiáng with a rising second tone. Also, do not mix up the left side: 墻 uses 土 (earth), while the standard traditional form 牆 uses 爿.
Questions about 墻
How many strokes are in 墻?
墻 is written with 16 strokes. The diagrams on this page number every stroke in the order it is written, with the new stroke shown in red.
What does 墻 mean?
墻 (qiáng) means wall.
How do you pronounce 墻?
墻 is pronounced qiáng, in the second tone (rising).
What is the radical of 墻?
The radical of 墻 is 土, which carries the idea of "soil". Dictionaries list 墻 under this radical.
What is the simplified form of 墻?
墻 is a traditional character. Its simplified form is 墙, used in mainland China and Singapore.
Should I use 墻, 牆, or 墙 when writing?
Use 墙 for simplified Chinese, as in mainland China and Singapore. Use 牆 for standard traditional Chinese, as in Taiwan and Hong Kong. 墻 is an accepted variant but is less common, so it is better to recognize it than to write it.
What are common words that contain this character?
Common words include 墙壁 (qiángbì, wall), 围墙 (wéiqiáng, enclosing wall), and 长城 is often described as a great wall, though 城墙 (chéngqiáng) means city wall. In traditional texts these may appear as 墻壁 or 城墻.