牌樓

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Chinese

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cards; game pieces; signboard
cards; game pieces; signboard; plate; tablet
 
house with more than 1 story; storied building; floor
trad. (牌樓)
simp. (牌楼)
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牌樓

  1. (architecture) pailou (traditional style of Chinese architectural arch or gateway structure)
    • [1930, Owen Lattimore, “Suget and Karakoram”, in High Tartary[1] (in English), Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, →OCLC, page 343:
      A little farther down we saw three tiny beehive stone huts, the place being called Palo, which is obviously a corruption of the Chinese p’ai-lou, and may mean that at some time in the past the Chinese advanced a border post thus far, claiming a frontier beyond the Karakoram.]

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牌樓

  1. () Pailou (a town in Dongbao district, Jingmen, Hubei, China)