Building in Chinese
building (with more than one story) · HSK 2
楼
Counted with 座: 一座楼
Other ways to say building
More words with 楼
How do you say building in Chinese?
Building in Chinese is 楼 (lóu). You can also say 房子 (fáng zi), 房屋 (fáng wū), 建筑 (jiàn zhù), 建筑物 (jiàn zhù wù).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.