Kanji1 / 13
楼 kanji
watchtower, lookout, high building
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- Strokes
- 13
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
ロウ
Kun readings
たかどの
Variant forms
樓Words with 楼
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —塔楼tall building
- —殿楼high palace tower
- —紅楼family or brothel with a beautiful woman; vermillion-lacquered mansion
- —土楼tulou (traditional rural dwelling in Fujian, China)
- —井楼wooden watchtower; battlefield watchtower
- —鼓楼temple tower housing a drum for marking the passing of time
- —楼台lofty building; tall building
- —蜃気楼mirage
- —白玉楼celestial tower where poets, artists, etc. were said to go in the afterlife
- —望火楼fire lookout; (fire) watchtower
- —船首楼forecastle; fo'c's'le
- —紅楼夢Dream of the Red Chamber (18th century novel by Cao Xueqin); Story of the Stone
- —空中楼閣castle in the air
- —金殿玉楼magnificent palace
- —大廈高楼large building and lofty tower; splendid (magnificent, palatial) structure
- —福建土楼Fujian tulou (traditional rural dwellings in Fujian, China)
- —砂上の楼閣house built on sand; house of cards
- —下位蜃気楼inferior mirage
- —上位蜃気楼superior mirage
- —白玉楼中の人となるto die (of a poet, artist, etc.)