Chinese symbol for “bricklayer”
泥瓦匠
ní wǎ jiàng
bricklayer; tiler; mason
The closest CC-CEDICT match for bricklayer is 泥瓦匠 (ní wǎ jiàng), defined as: bricklayer; tiler; mason.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “bricklayer”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 泥瓦匠.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 水泥 | shuǐ ní | cement; measure word: 袋 (dài) |
| 泥土 | ní tǔ | earth; soil; mud; clay |
| 泥沙 | ní shā | silt |
| 草泥马 (草泥馬) | cǎo ní mǎ | see 肏你妈 (cào nǐ mā) (near homophone used to avoid Internet censorship); (Internet slang) fictional alpaca-like animal; by extension, an actu |
| 泥泞 (泥濘) | ní nìng | muddy; mud |
| 泥巴 | ní ba | (coll.) mud |
| 瓦解 | wǎ jiě | to collapse; to disintegrate; to crumble; to disrupt; to break up |
| 瓦斯 | wǎ sī | gas (loanword) |
| 工匠 | gōng jiàng | craftsman; artisan |
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.