







Blockhouse
Fortified tower
Diaolou
Standing in the watchtower, we admired the surrounding scenes.
This is the earliest style of Diaolou.

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Open the tool →碉楼 (diāo lóu) means “Blockhouse, Fortified tower, Diaolou”.
碉楼 is pronounced diāo lóu in Mandarin Chinese.
“Blockhouse” is 碉楼 (diāo lóu) in Chinese.
This page has 2 example sentences using 碉楼, each with pinyin and an English translation.