摞 (luò) · to pile up, to stack

Meanings

1 to pile up
2 to stack
3 a stack / a pile (measure word for stacked flat objects)

Characters

摞

luò

to stack / pile of stacked objects

Examples

HSK 5

桌上有一摞文件等着他处理。

Zhuō shàng yǒu yí luò wénjiàn děng zhe tā chǔlǐ.

There is a pile of documents on the desk waiting for him to deal with.

HSK 6

把书摞起来放在角落里。

Bǎ shū luò qǐlái fàng zài jiǎoluò lǐ.

Stack the books up and put them in the corner.

Tips

usage

摞 serves as both a verb (to stack) and a measure word. As a measure word, it counts stacks of flat objects: 一摞书 (a stack of books), 一摞碗 (a pile of bowls). It specifically implies things stacked on top of each other, not just grouped together.

Components

radical

扌 shǒu

hand (radical form of 手)

Hand radical on the left - three-stroke side form of 手, anchoring 摞 in the manual-action family. Stacking books or piling plates is a hand-led activity, one item carefully placed atop another. Sits with 堆 heap, 叠 fold-stack, 垒 pile up - though only 摞 specifically combines the hand verb with the 累 'accumulate' phonetic.

phonetic

累 lèi

tired; accumulate

Right side 累 supplies the sound - lèi shifting to luò, a regular vowel shift. 累 also contributes meaning: its core sense is 'to pile up, accumulate', which is exactly what stacking is. One of those happy compounds where the right side does double duty - sound AND reinforcement of the hand-led meaning.