duī

to pile up

to heap up; a mass; pile; heap; stack; large amount

earth (土) + bird sound (隹) = to pile up into a heap

Earth piled on earth is the essence of a heap. 隹 (a short-tailed bird) lends the sound duī; the soil radical carries all the meaning.

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Short-tailed birdPhonetic

桌上着很多书。

zhuō shàng duī zhe hěn duō shū。

There are a lot of books piled up on the desk.

他把衣服都在床上,没有整理。

tā bǎ yī fu dōu duī zài chuáng shàng,méi yǒu zhěng lǐ。

He heaped all his clothes on the bed without tidying them up.

Words with 堆

重水反应堆

zhòng shuǐ fǎn yìng duī

heavy water reactor (HWR)

钻故纸堆

zuān gù zhǐ duī

to dig into piles of outdated writings (idiom); to study old books and papers

零功率堆

líng gōng lǜ duī

zero power reactor

露天堆栈

lù tiān duī zhàn

open-air repository

马王堆

mǎ wáng duī

Mawangdui in Changsha, Hunan, a recent Han dynasty archaeological site

一堆

yī duī

pile

三星堆

sān xīng duī

archaeological site of Sanxingdui outside Chengdu (Sichuan), exhibiting remarkable bronze artifacts from the 11-12th centuries BC

乃堆拉

nǎi duī lā

Nathu La (Himalayan pass on Silk Road between Tibet and Indian Sikkim)

乃堆拉山口

nǎi duī lā shān kǒu

Nathu La (Himalayan pass on the Silk Road between Tibet and the northeastern Indian state of Sikkim)

估堆儿

gū duī r

to assess an entire lot

六方最密堆积

liù fāng zuì mì duī jī

hexagonal close-packed (HCP) (math.)

反应堆

fǎn yìng duī

reactor

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