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磚 (砖)

zhuān

Definition

brick
brick-shaped things
茶磚

Brick Tea

Character Decomposition

Related words (20)

brick

brick

tiles and bricks

brick

brick kiln

zhuān yáo chǎng

brick kiln

zhuān hóng tǔ

red brick clay

ice-cream brick

floor tile

(slang) to throw brickbats; to criticize harshly

(dialect) wall brick

marker brick (in building); keystone

ceramic tile

to lay bricks; bricklaying

magnesium brick (refractory material)

dì bǎn zhuān

floor tile

qì zhuān gōng

bricklaying

nài huǒ zhuān

refractory brick; firebrick

ruǎn mù zhuān

cork tile; cork flooring

hēi zhuān yáo

(lit.) black brick kiln; factories that acquired notoriety in 2007 for slave labor

Idioms (5)

qiāo mén zhuān

(lit.) a brick as a door knocker (idiom); fig. a temporary expedient; to use sb as a stepping stone to fortune

yǐn yù zhī zhuān

(lit.) a brick thrown after a jade; enticing sb to come forward (idiom)

pāo zhuān yǐn yù

(lit.) to throw a brick to attract jade (idiom); (fig) I offer a humble remark, please give us your valued opinion (e.g. commonplace remarks as a foreword to a distinguished speech)

bān zhuān zá jiǎo

to hurt oneself by one's own doing; to boomerang; to shoot oneself in the foot (idiom)

tiān zhuān jiā wǎ

(lit.) contribute bricks and tiles for a building (idiom); (fig.) to do one's bit to help

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