Fluentide
Chinese Vocabulary

to build (a building)

gài4th tone
Pinyin
gài
Strokes
11
In episodes
1

Stroke order for 盖

is written with 11 strokes. The animation replays automatically.

Usage

两年前,他们才开始盖房子 — 盖 is the verb for putting up a building; 做房子 would be wrong.

Hear 盖 in real episodes

appears in 1 Fluentide podcast episode at natural native speed. Each sentence plays at the easiest difficulty it exists in — switch it to hear the same moment at your level, with full pinyin and English throughout.

两年前,他们才开始房子。

Only two years ago did they actually start building.

Christian Bale Spent Twenty Years Building Twelve Houses So Foster Brothers and Sisters Would Stop Being Split Up

Difficulty
Browse the full episode library

FAQ

Related words from the same episodes

Acquire it by listening

Meet 盖 again — in real Chinese, at your level.

You just saw 盖 in 1 episode. Fluentide keeps feeding you news episodes at your level, so this word — and thousands like it — resurface in real sentences until they stick. Full pinyin and translation every time. Free to start.