栈 (zhàn) - A warehouse, shed, or inn & a wooden structure for storage or lodging

栈Tone 4

zhàn ｜ 9 strokes ｜ radical:

悦丈

栈 · zhàn

A warehouse, shed, or inn;

a wooden structure for storage or lodging;

in computing, a stack data structure.

A warehouse, shed, or inna wooden structure for storage or lodgingin computing, a stack data structure.

Usage highlights

WarehouseInnStack data structureWooden trestleStack memoryStack overflow

Synonyms

Antonyms

  • 队列— queue (computing data structure)

Usage & contexts

Examples

  • The goods are stored in the warehouse (货栈).
  • We stayed at an inn (客栈) for the night.
  • This uses a stack data structure (栈结构).
  • They built a wooden trestle (栈桥) across the river.

Collocations

  • Warehouse(货栈)
  • Inn(客栈)
  • Stack data structure(栈结构)
  • Wooden trestle(栈桥)
  • Stack memory(栈内存)
  • Stack overflow(栈溢出)

Idioms

  • No specific common idioms featuring 栈 as the key character were found.

Cultural background

FAQ
  • Historically, 栈 referred to simple wooden structures like inns or storage sheds along trade routes.
  • The character is associated with the ancient plank roads (栈道) built along cliffs in Sichuan and Shaanxi.
  • In modern computing, it's used to translate 'stack', a fundamental data structure.

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