| RADICAL | ⽊ (75.11) |
|---|---|
| STROKES | 15 |
| SIMPLIFIED | 楼 |
building of two or more stories
| 樓 lóu |
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| 高樓 gāo lóu | high building; multistory building; skyscraper; CL:座[zuo4] |
| 高樓大廈 gāo lóu dà shà | tall building |
| 鬼樓 guǐ lóu | haunted house |
| 黃鶴樓 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 |
| 鼓樓 gǔ lóu | a drum tower; Drum Tower, historic attraction in Xian, Beijing etc |
| 鼓樓區 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 |