Chinese Character Wiki
堆

duī

heap, pile

Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 隹 represents the sound.

Components
土 meaning component

土  Meaning component

tǔ

  

earth

隹 sound component

隹  Sound component

zhuī

  

bird

Evolution

堆 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
堆 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

堆  

duī

heap, pile, crowd; pile up; to pile up; to heap up; a mass; pile; heap; stack; large amount

Most common words with 堆
Freq.
Word
Meaning

堆

to pile up

一堆

pile

堆积

to pile up

垃圾堆

garbage heap

堆放

to pile up

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.tˤuj

twoj

duī

heap; mound


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 30.4341% of movies

1282nd most common character in movies

1370th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+5806


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