摞 (luò): to pile up

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

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.

桌上有一摞文件等着他处理。

Zhuōshàng yǒu yī luò wénjiàn děng zhe tā chǔlǐ.

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

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.