







架屋叠床 is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “to be redundant and superfluous”. To pile up unnecessarily, referring to overly verbose or repetitive writing or speech. Literally, “Build houses upon houses, stack beds upon beds”.

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Open the tool →架屋叠床 (jià wū dié chuáng) is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “to be redundant and superfluous”.
架屋叠床 is pronounced jià wū dié chuáng in Mandarin Chinese.
Literally, 架屋叠床 means “Build houses upon houses, stack beds upon beds”. It is used to mean “to be redundant and superfluous”.
屋上架屋,床上叠床。比喻重复累赘。