Chinese symbol for “pile”
一堆
yī duī
pile; heap; a lot of; a bunch of
The closest CC-CEDICT match for pile is 一堆 (yī duī), defined as: pile; heap; a lot of; a bunch of.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “pile”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 垛 | duò | pile |
| 桩 (樁) | zhuāng | stump; stake; pile; classifier for events, cases, transactions, affairs etc |
| 堆 | duī | to pile up; to heap up |
| 摞 | luò | to pile up; to stack |
| 簇 | cù | (bound form) to cluster; to pile up; cluster; pile |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 一堆.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 一个 (一個) | yī ge | a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc) |
| 一些 | yī xiē | some; a few; a little; (following an adjective) slightly ...er |
| 一样 (一樣) | yī yàng | same; like |
| 一定 | yī dìng | surely; certainly; definitely; fixed; settled |
| 一起 | yī qǐ | (in) the same place; together; in company (with) |
| 一直 | yī zhí | straight (in a straight line); continuously; always; all the way through |
| 堆积 (堆積) | duī jī | to pile up; to heap |
| 反应堆 (反應堆) | fǎn yìng duī | reactor |
See also: Japanese symbol for “pile”.
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.