Chinese Character Wiki

築

zhù, zhú

ancient lute

A building 巩 of bamboo ⺮ and wood 木; ⺮also provides the pronunciation

Components
⺮ meaning component

⺮  Meaning component

zhú

  

bamboo

巩 meaning component

巩  Meaning component

gǒng

  

secure, bind

木 meaning component

木  Meaning component

mù

  

tree

Evolution

築 Bronze script Warring States (475-221 BC)

Bronze script

Warring States (475-221 BC)
築 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
築 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
築 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

筑 (築) 

zhú

build, erect; building

筑 (築) 

zhù

to build; to construct; to ram; to hit; Taiwan pr. [zhú]

Most common words with 築
Freq.
Word
Meaning

建筑

to construct

建筑物

building

建筑师

architect

筑

to build

构筑

to build

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*truk

trjuwk

zhù

pound earth, build


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 14.2880% of movies

1644th most common character in movies

1130th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

筑

Unicode

U+7BC9

Shuowen

“築，擣也。从木，筑聲。，古文。”


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