Chinese symbol for “stump”
桩
zhuāng
Traditional: 樁
stump; stake; pile; classifier for events, cases, transactions, affairs etc
The closest CC-CEDICT match for stump is 桩 (zhuāng), defined as: stump; stake; pile; classifier for events, cases, transactions, affairs etc.
Before using these characters for a tattoo, check them with a native speaker. Dictionary words often have several meanings, and the right choice depends on context.
Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “stump”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 残肢 (殘肢) | cán zhī | stump (of a limb); severed limb |
| 株 | zhū | tree trunk; stump (tree root) |
| 难住 (難住) | nán zhù | to baffle; to stump |
| 难倒 (難倒) | nán dǎo | to baffle; to confound |
| 问倒 (問倒) | wèn dǎo | to stump; to baffle |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 桩.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 木桩 (木樁) | mù zhuāng | wooden pile; stake |
| 打桩机 (打樁機) | dǎ zhuāng jī | pile driver (machinery) |
| 打桩 (打樁) | dǎ zhuāng | to drive piles into |
| 树桩 (樹樁) | shù zhuāng | tree stump |
| 小事一桩 (小事一樁) | xiǎo shì yī zhuāng | trivial matter; a piece of cake |
| 界桩 (界樁) | jiè zhuāng | boundary marker; boundary post; boundary pillar |
See also: Japanese symbol for “stump”.
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.