堆 duī crowd
crowd; heap; pile; mass; to pile up
怎么记住“堆”: 土 earth + 隹 short-tailed bird = crowd. A boy tosses bread crumbs onto the earth in the park, and every short-tailed bird in town lands in one big crowd.
部件结构
形声 · Meaning + sound
One part gives the meaning, the other gives the sound.
堆 = 土 earth + 隹 short-tailed bird
- 土 earth meaning
- 隹 short-tailed bird sound
A boy tosses bread crumbs onto the earth in the park, and every short-tailed bird in town lands in one big crowd.
How it came to be
Earth gives the meaning and the bird gives the sound.
用法
- Measure word for messy piles: 一堆问题 (yī duī wèntí), a pile of problems, often used casually to complain about excess or clutter.
- As a verb, 堆 means to pile something up: 把书堆在桌上 (bǎ shū duī zài zhuō shàng), pile the books on the desk.
- 堆积 (duījī) is the more formal/written version, common in phrases like 堆积如山 (duījī rú shān): piled up like a mountain, for a huge backlog.
- The measure-word use (一堆 + noun) is very frequent in everyday spoken complaints.
含“堆”的词语
例句
- 船上堆满了货物。 Chuán shàng duī mǎn le huòwùThe ship is fully loaded with cargo.