堆duī
to pile up, heap. 11 strokes, radical 土, first met in HSK 5.
Pinyin duīStrokes 11Radical 土Band HSK 5Words 1
How to write 堆
Strokes 1–3 write 土, then strokes 4–11 write 隹.
Free, with no account: the app draws each stroke, then you write it and it says which stroke went wrong.
Print a 米字格 practice sheet for 堆 · the stroke-order rules
What 堆 is made of
土 (tǔ, soil) and 隹 (zhuī, short-tailed bird).
土 carries the meaning — earth — and 隹 carries the sound.
Words that use 堆
| 堆 | to pile up, heap 指把东西聚集摆放在一起，形成隆起的形状 岩洞深处堆积着天然矿晶。Deep inside the cave, natural crystals lay piled up. Lesson 416, 辨析对应 · 经世谋断与春华秋实 · Technological Order & Human Vitality |
Characters that share the sound part 隹
Written with the same phonetic, so their readings tend to rhyme with each other.
More characters with the radical 土
All 34 of them, and what the radical means, on the 土 radical page.