楼 lóu

building of two or more stories

HSK 3 #876

DEFINITIONS

楼 lóu
  • surname Lou
  • house with more than 1 story
  • storied building
  • floor
  • CL:層|层[ceng2],座[zuo4],棟|栋[dong4]

STROKES

WORDS

青楼 qīng lóu (literary) brothel; pleasure quarters
骑楼 qí lóu arcade (architecture)
鬼楼 guǐ lóu haunted house
黄鹤楼 huáng hè lóu Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan City, built in 223, burnt down in 1884, rebuilt in 1985; favored place of poet sages, who in legend arrived riding golden cranes; Tang poem by Cui Hao 崔顥|崔颢[Cui1 Hao4], with theme 'the past will never return'; one of three famous pagodas in China along with Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓|岳阳楼[Yue4 yang2 Lou2] in Yueyang, north Hunan, and Tengwang Tower 滕王閣|滕王阁[Teng2 wang2 Ge2] in Nanchang, Jiangxi
鼓楼 gǔ lóu a drum tower; Drum Tower, historic attraction in Xian, Beijing etc
鼓楼区 gǔ lóu qū Drumtower city district (various); Gulou district of Nanjing City 南京市[Nan2 jing1 shi4], Jiangsu; Gulou or Drumtower district of Fuzhou city 福州市[Fu2 zhou1 shi4], Fujian
一层楼 yī céng lóu one floor of a building; one-story building
楼太高 lóu tài gāo the building is too tall
小楼 xiǎo lóu small building; usually implies a low-rise structure or a small-sized building
二楼 èr lóu second floor; the level above the ground floor in a building
三楼 sān lóu third floor; the floor above the second floor in a building
楼有 lóu yǒu have on the floor
科学楼 kē xué lóu science building
下楼 xià lóu to go downstairs
楼前 lóu qián in front of the building
三层楼 sān céng lóu three-story building; three floors; three levels
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