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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *楼* | 楼* | *楼
house with more than 1 story / storied building / floor / CL: 層|层, , 棟|栋
HSK 1
on the ground / on the floor
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *层* | 层* | *层
to pile on top of one another / layer; stratum / floor (of a building); story / (math.) sheaf / classifier for layers
HSK 2
area (of a floor, piece of land etc) / surface area / tract of land
HSK 3
floor / ground / surface
HSK 4
pond / bathhouse pool / dance floor of a ballroom / (old) stalls (front rows in a theater)
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *拖* | 拖* | *拖
to drag / to tow / to trail / to hang down / to mop (the floor) / to delay / to drag on
HSK 6
floor
HSK 6
ground floor; first floor / lowest level; lowest rung (of society etc)
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *砖* | 砖* | *砖
brick / tile (floor or wall, not roof) / CL: 塊|块
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *场* | 场* | *场
threshing floor / classifier for events and happenings: spell, episode, bout
basic salary / base pay / salary floor
top floor / the top of a building
floor tile
floor / floor (ie. metal plate, concrete slab, wooden planking etc)
to sweep the floor / (fig.) (of one's reputation etc) to reach rock bottom / to be at an all-time low
roadway / floor / deck / bridge floor
to delegate / to decentralize / to demote a party cadre to work on the shop floor or in the countryside
valley floor / (fig.) lowest ebb / all-time low
to wax (a car, floor etc)
to crush or compact (with a roller) / to run over (with a vehicle) / (fig.) to trounce; to wipe the floor with; to be far superior
relative position of exhibition booth / allocated floor space for display stall / allotted exhibit area
drain / underground drainpipe / floor gutter / 25th of 2nd lunar month
top floor / attic / loft / garret / penthouse / (flat) rooftop (often used as an outdoor living area etc)
dance floor
lit. if thrown on the floor, it will make a sound (idiom) / fig. (of one's words) powerful and resonating / to have substance
floor lamp
to sit on the ground or the floor (idiom)
threshing floor
threshing floor
sea sand (sand of the ocean floor or seashore)
to mop the floor / (of a gown etc) to trail on the ground / full-length
floor mat; bathroom mat; car mat; doormat
floor-to-ceiling window / French window
to vacuum the floor
exchange / trading floor
red waistcoat / (stock market) floor trader; floor broker
(used on signs) caution - wet floor (lit. "be careful, the floor is slippery")
(of floors, roads etc) wet and slippery
to mop the floor
to clean the floor / (Internet slang) (lit.) to wash (the blood) off the floor / (fig.) to cover up evidence of sb's wrongdoing / to defend (a wrongdoer) / (coll.) to carpet-bomb
(architecture) basement level 1; floor B1
basement level 1; floor B1
floor
ground floor; first floor
to be looking for one's teeth all over the floor / (fig.) to get beaten up badly / to beat the crap out of (sb)
first floor / ground floor
tenement building, typically of 2-4 stories, with a shop on the ground floor and upper floors used for residential purposes (esp. in southern China)
(anatomy) pelvic floor
pelvic floor (anatomy)
seven floor pagoda
(martial arts) floor-sweeping kick (to trip one's opponent)
floor (gymnastics)
floor tile
floor / platform
floor monitor; foldback speaker; wedge monitor
threshing floor
floor tom (drum kit component)
tiling (of roofs, floors, walls etc)
lit. the boot hits the floor (idiom) / fig. a much-anticipated, impactful development has finally occurred (an allusion to a joke from the 1950s in which a young man would take off a boot and throw it onto the floor, waking the old man sleeping downstairs who could then not get back to sleep until he had heard the second boot hit the floor)
dinner show / dinner and floor show
(Tw) shared-facilities ratio (expressed as a percentage of the total floor space of a building)
dinner show / dinner and floor show
floor area / occupied area / footprint (of a building, piece of equipment etc)
ground floor / first floor
to make one's bed on the floor
to thresh grain (on the floor)
floor with tiled design
saving a life is more meritorious than building a seven-floor pagoda (idiom)
floor; story (of a building)
tabula (horizontal floor of polyp)
ocean floor / bottom of the ocean
(architecture) clear height; vertical clearance (from the floor to the lowest hanging object, such as a beam, pipe or ceiling) / (coll.) a person's height measured without shoes; actual height
to kowtow (touch the forehead to the floor)


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