Chinese symbol for “fort”
堡垒
bǎo lěi
Traditional: 堡壘
fort
The closest CC-CEDICT match for fort is 堡垒 (bǎo lěi), defined as: fort.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “fort”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 炮台 (砲臺) | pào tái | fort; battery |
| 堡寨 | bǎo zhài | fort; fortress |
| 要塞 | yào sài | stronghold; fort |
| 坞 (塢) | wù | (bound form) low area within a surrounding barrier; (literary) small castle; fort |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 堡垒.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 城堡 | chéng bǎo | castle; rook (chess piece) |
| 汉堡 (漢堡) | hàn bǎo | (loanword) hamburger |
| 碉堡 | diāo bǎo | (military) pillbox; blockhouse; humorous way of writing 屌爆 (diǎo bào) |
| 古堡 | gǔ bǎo | ancient castle |
| 桥头堡 (橋頭堡) | qiáo tóu bǎo | bridgehead (military); stronghold serving as a base for advancing further into enemy territory |
| 壁垒 (壁壘) | bì lěi | rampart; barrier |
| 垒球 (壘球) | lěi qiú | softball |
| 对垒 (對壘) | duì lěi | to face off against one's adversary (military, sports etc) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “fort”.
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.