DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

周莊

简周庄 · 繁周莊

Mandarin · pinyin Zhōu zhuāng

Zhouzhuang, old canal town between Shanghai and Suzhou, tourist attraction

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

周: zhōu · Zhou dynasty; circumference
莊: Look up this written character
庄: zhuāng · village, hamlet; villa, manor

Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

1–1 · Zhou1 zhuang1

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

2character links

Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗

Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.

Read this spelling in Classical texts

Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.

周莊 · find source passages ↗ · 周庄 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗