砌
qìqiè HSK7

to build

砌 qì frequency
lay bricks verb
to build by laying bricks or stones

他正在院子里砌一道砖墙。

tā zhèng​zài yuàn​zi lǐ qì yī dào zhuān​qiáng.

He is building a brick wall in the yard.

砌 qiè
props noun
used in the compound 砌末 qiè​mo, meaning stage props in traditional Chinese opera

演员正在仔细检查台上的砌末。

yǎn​yuán zhèng​zài zǐ​xì jiǎn​chá tái​shàng de qì​mò.

The actors are carefully checking the stage props.

Frequency
Character
Written text
3,221st most common 7.45 per million
Movie subtitles
3,754th most common 0.960 per million appears in 1% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.01 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
4.83 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+780C

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