Keyword
fortress
- fort
- town
- village
- Frequency
- #1270
- Strokes
- 12
Readings
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Mnemonic
Earthen 土 walls built for defense 保; 保 also provides the meaning
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in vocabulary
城堡
castle; rook (chess piece)
堡
(bound form) fortress; stronghold; (often used to transliterate -berg, -burg etc in place names); (bound form) burger (abbr. for 汉堡 (hànbǎo))
汉堡
(loanword) hamburger
堡垒
fort
圣彼得堡
Saint Petersburg (city in Russia)
汉堡
Hamburg (German city)
卢森堡
Luxembourg
匹兹堡
Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania)
碉堡
(military) pillbox; blockhouse; humorous way of writing 屌爆 (diǎobào)
爱丁堡
Edinburgh, capital of Scotland
纽伦堡
Nuremberg, town in Bavaria, Germany
君士坦丁堡
Constantinople, capital of Byzantium
洪堡
Humboldt
伊斯兰堡
Islamabad, capital of Pakistan
古堡
ancient castle
约翰内斯堡
Johannesburg, South Africa
伊斯坦堡
(Tw) Istanbul
大堡礁
Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
海德堡
Heidelberg
桥头堡
bridgehead (military); stronghold serving as a base for advancing further into enemy territory; bridge tower (ornamental structure at either end of a bridge); (fig.) gateway (place that provides access to other places beyond it); bridgehead (key location serving as a base for further expansion)
彼得堡
Petersburg (place name); Saint Petersburg, Russia
海森堡
Werner Heisenberg (1901–1976), German physicist
林堡
Limburg, Netherlands; Limbourg, Belgium
地堡
bunker (underground fortification)