Chinese symbol for “rafters”
梁架
liáng jià
roof beam; rafters
The closest CC-CEDICT match for rafters is 梁架 (liáng jià), defined as: roof beam; rafters.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 梁架.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 桥梁 (橋梁) | qiáo liáng | bridge (lit. and fig.) |
| 脊梁 | jǐ liáng | backbone; spine |
| 横梁 (橫梁) | héng liáng | beam |
| 鼻梁 | bí liáng | bridge of the nose |
| 栋梁 (棟梁) | dòng liáng | ridgepole; ridgepole and beams |
| 绑架 (綁架) | bǎng jià | to kidnap; to abduct |
| 框架 | kuàng jià | (construction) frame; (fig.) framework |
| 架构 (架構) | jià gòu | to construct; to build; structure; framework; architecture |
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.
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