Chinese symbol for “edifice”
建筑物
jiàn zhù wù
Traditional: 建築物
building; structure; edifice
The closest CC-CEDICT match for edifice is 建筑物 (jiàn zhù wù), defined as: building; structure; edifice.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 建筑物.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 建设 (建設) | jiàn shè | to build; to construct; to establish; to develop; to institute |
| 建立 | jiàn lì | to establish; to set up |
| 建筑 (建築) | jiàn zhù | to construct; building |
| 建议 (建議) | jiàn yì | to propose; to suggest; to recommend; proposal; suggestion; recommendation (点 (diǎn)) |
| 建造 | jiàn zào | to construct; to build |
| 建成 | jiàn chéng | to establish; to build |
| 建筑师 (建築師) | jiàn zhù shī | architect |
| 构筑 (構築) | gòu zhù | to build; to construct |
| 人物 | rén wù | person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance); character (in a play, novel etc) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “edifice”.
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.