堆 duī
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 土 — soil, earth
- Made of
- 土 soil, earth 隹 short-tailed bird
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
堆砌
duīqì
to pile up; to stack; to overload with rhetoric
Characters in this word
砌 qì
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 石 — stone, rock, mineral
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 这篇文章堆砌了大量概念，却没有提出可检验的论证。 Zhè piān wénzhāng duīqì le dàliàng gàiniàn, què méiyǒu tíchū kě jiǎnyàn de lùnzhèng. This article piles up a large number of concepts, but offers no argument that can be tested.
- 他在文章里堆砌华丽的词语，却没有真正的内容。 Tā zài wénzhāng lǐ duīqì huálì de cíyǔ, què méiyǒu zhēnzhèng de nèiróng. He piles up gorgeous words in his article but has no real content.
- 房间里堆砌着各种昂贵的装饰品，反而显得很俗气。 Fángjiān lǐ duīqì zhe gèzhǒng ángguì de zhuāngshìpǐn, fǎn'ér xiǎnde hěn súqì. The room is crammed with all kinds of expensive decorations, which instead makes it look tacky.
Related words
- 堆 duī pile; to pile up
- 堆积 duījī to pile up; to accumulate
- 豁 huō to slit; to split open; to sacrifice
- 动用 dòngyòng to use; to mobilise; to draw on
- 发掘 fājué to excavate; to discover and bring out
- 粉碎 fěnsuì to crush; to shatter
- 焚烧 fénshāo to burn; to incinerate
- 分割 fēngē to divide; to cut apart; to separate
- 打磨 dǎmó to polish; to refine
- 钉 dìng to nail; to fasten with nails
- 糊 hú to paste; to plaster; to stick on
- 掰 bāi to break off with the hands; to bend apart