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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

桩 zhuāng
stake, post; matter, affair
radical 75 ⽊ · 10 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “stump”

WordPinyinMeaning
残肢 (殘肢)cán zhīstump (of a limb); severed limb
株zhūtree trunk; stump (tree root)
难住 (難住)nán zhùto baffle; to stump
难倒 (難倒)nán dǎoto baffle; to confound
问倒 (問倒)wèn dǎoto stump; to baffle

Related words

Other words that share a character with 桩.

WordPinyinMeaning
木桩 (木樁)mù zhuāngwooden pile; stake
打桩机 (打樁機)dǎ zhuāng jīpile driver (machinery)
打桩 (打樁)dǎ zhuāngto drive piles into
树桩 (樹樁)shù zhuāngtree stump
小事一桩 (小事一樁)xiǎo shì yī zhuāngtrivial matter; a piece of cake
界桩 (界樁)jiè zhuāngboundary 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.

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