築
zhù HSK7

ancient lute

筑 (築) zhù
build verb
to build, construct, or erect a structure such as a wall, dam, or road

工人们在河边筑起了一道防洪堤。

gōng​rén men zài hé biān zhù qǐ le yī dào fáng​hóng​dī.

The workers built a flood control levee along the river.

ram verb
to ram, pound, or hit earth or soil to make it firm

在古代，人们通过筑土来建造房屋的基座。

zài gǔ​dài, rén​men tōng​guò zhù tǔ lái jiàn​zào fáng​wū de jī​zuò.

In ancient times, people built the foundations of houses by ramming earth.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,130th most common 128.1 per million
Movie subtitles
1,644th most common 35.1 per million appears in 14% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
2.38 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
12.1 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Simplified
筑
Strokes
16
Unicode
U+7BC9

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)