IDENTITY
楼lóubuilding; tower
HSK 1Top 400
CORE MEANING
building; tower
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.buildingHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 木tree radical (mù)
- strokes
- 13
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰木娄
- wood
- gives the sound lóu
USAGE
Common words
大楼dàlóubig building
楼上lóushàngupstairs
楼顶lóudǐngrooftop
Graded examples
这座楼有二十层。Zhè zuò lóu yǒu èrshí céng.HSK3
This building has twenty floors.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
POEM LINES WITH THIS CHARACTER
LEARNING
Memory aid
A wooden (木) tower with layered (娄) floors — a building. (From 樓.)
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #400
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
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