层楼 (層樓)
céng lóu
Pinyin

Definition

层楼 (層樓)
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céng lóu
  1. multistoried building
  2. tower
  3. pagoda

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

层
céng
  1. 1 layer
  2. 2 stratum
  3. 3 laminated
  4. 4 floor (of a building)
  5. 5 storey
  6. 6 classifier for layers
  7. 7 repeated
  8. 8 sheaf (math.)
楼
Lóu
  1. 1 surname Lou
楼下
lóu xià
  1. 1 downstairs
楼梯
lóu tī
  1. 1 stair
  2. 2 staircase
  3. 3 classifier: 个 gè
红楼梦
Hóng lóu Mèng
  1. 1 A Dream of Red Mansions (first completed edition 1791) by Cao Xueqin 曹雪芹[Cáo Xuě qín], one of the four great novels

Idioms (8)

人去楼空
rén qù lóu kōng
  1. 1 the people are gone and the place is empty (idiom)
  2. 2 the sight of a deserted place brings old friends to mind
  3. 3 the place is deserted
  4. 4 the birds have flown
层出不穷
céng chū bù qióng
  1. 1 more and more emerge
  2. 2 innumerable succession
  3. 3 breeding like flies (idiom)
层峦叠嶂
céng luán dié zhàng
  1. 1 range upon range of mountains (idiom)
琼楼玉宇
qióng lóu yù yǔ
  1. 1 bejeweled jade palace (idiom); sumptuous dwelling
空中楼阁
kōng zhōng lóu gé
  1. 1 pavilion in the air (idiom); unrealistic Utopian construction
  2. 2 castles in Spain
  3. 3 imaginary future plans

Sample Sentences

听起来跟我目前的工作性质差异不大，只是多了“跨国”两个字，我当初跟你们联系是希望有更上层楼的机会。
tīng qǐlai gēn wǒ mùqián de gōngzuò xìngzhì chāyì búdà ，zhǐshì duō le “kuàguó ”liǎng gè zì ，wǒ dāngchū gēn nǐmen liánxì shì xīwàng yǒu gèngshàngcénglóu de jīhuì 。
It sounds like it's not that different in nature from my current position, it just differs in the addition of the word "multinational." When I first reached out to you, it was because I wanted a higher level position.
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进入2011年，相信大家对整个市场的走向以及公司的方针策略都很期待。当然我们的目的只有一个，那就是如何在2011年更上一层楼！
jìnrù èrlíngyīyī nián ，xiāngxìn dàjiā duì zhěnggè shìchǎng de zǒuxiàng yǐjí gōngsī de fāngzhēn cèlüè dōu hěn qīdài 。dāngrán wǒmen de mùdì zhǐyǒu yī gè ，nà jiùshì rúhé zài èrlíngyīyī nián gèng shàng yīcéng lóu ！
Entering 2011, I'm sure you are all looking forward to the direction of the market as a whole as well as the company's policy strategy. Of course, we only have one goal: to reach even greater heights in 2011!
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嗯，我去上海的时候听过。石库门出现于十九世纪中。当时大批难民因为打仗逃难到上海租界里，必须很多人挤在一所小房子里。久而久之，就形成了石库门这种两层楼的石质房屋。家门里面有一个很小的花园，叫天井。石库门中间细长的街道叫弄堂。以前，北京和上海的大多数居民都住在这些传统民居里。
ng4 ，wǒ qù Shànghǎi de shíhou tīng guo 。shíkùmén chūxiàn yú shíjiǔ shìjì zhōng 。dāngshí dàpī nànmín yīnwèi dǎzhàng táonàn dào Shànghǎi zūjiè lǐ ，bìxū hěn duō rén jǐ zài yī suǒ xiǎo fángzǐ lǐ 。jiǔ'érjiǔzhī ，jiù xíngchéng le shíkùmén zhèzhǒng liǎng céng lóu de shízhì fángwū 。jiāmén lǐmiàn yǒu yī ge hěn xiǎo de huāyuán ，jiào tiānjǐng 。shíkùmén zhōngjiān xìcháng de jiēdào jiào lòngtáng 。yǐqián ，Běijīng hé Shànghǎi de dàduōshù jūmín dōu zhùzài zhèxiē chuántǒng mínjū lǐ 。
Yes, I heard about it when I was in Shanghai. Shikumen came into existence in the mid-19th century. There was an influx of war refugees fleeing to the concessions in Shanghai. They had to cram into small houses. Over time, these evolved into a type of two-story house made from stone known as shikumen. There is a tiny garden inside the house called a tianjing. The long narrow lanes between shikumen houses are known as longtang. Most of the people in Beijing and Shanghai used to live in these traditional residences.
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