








dome-shaped; vaulted shape
Halls with circular plan or domed ceiling are apt to significant acoustic defects; and, it is even worse in hemi-spherical halls.
To allow a dome to rest above a square base, either of two devices was used: the squinch (an arch in each of the corners of a square base that transforms it into an octagon) or the pendentive.

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Open the tool →穹形 (qióng xíng) means “dome-shaped; vaulted shape”.
穹形 is pronounced qióng xíng in Mandarin Chinese.
“dome-shaped; vaulted shape” is 穹形 (qióng xíng) in Chinese.
This page has 2 example sentences using 穹形, each with pinyin and an English translation.