垛 (duò): a stack; a neatly piled heap

Meanings

收割后，农民把稻草垛成高高的草垛。

Shōugē hòu, nóngmín bǎ dàocǎo duò chéng gāogāo de cǎo duǒ.

After the harvest the farmers piled the straw into tall stacks.

院子里有一大垛柴火。

Yuànzi lǐ yǒu yí dà duò cháihuo.

There is a large stack of firewood in the yard.

usage

Read duò, 垛 is a neat pile or the act of stacking, as in 草垛 ("a haystack"). The other reading duǒ means a battlement (see the primary entry).

radical

土 tǔ

earth; soil

土 is the earth radical, fitting 垛 as a structure built of packed earth or brick.

phonetic

朵 duǒ

(measure word for flowers); cluster

朵 gives the exact sound duǒ and carries no meaning in 垛; it is purely the phonetic.

垛 duò