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楼 — house with more than 1 story

house with more than 1 story; storied building; floor

Pinyin
lóu · Lóu
Strokes
13
HSK level
HSK 2
Handwriting
recognition only

This character has more than one reading — lóu, Lóu — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 楼: 13 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

楼 — 13 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

Build a printable practice sheet with 楼

Words with 楼 in the HSK syllabus: 5

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 楼lóuhouse with more than 1 story; storied buildingHSK 2
  2. 楼梯lóutīstair; staircaseHSK 3
  3. 楼道lóudàocorridor; passagewayHSK 6
  4. 阁楼gélóugarret; loft; atticHSK 7–9
  5. 酒楼jiǔlóurestaurantHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.