Pinyin: céng

floor; layer

Example sentence

我住在八层。

Wǒ zhù zài bā céng.

I live on the 8th floor.

What 层 means

(céng) is a Chinese word meaning “floor; layer”. It belongs to the Time & Nature topic and appears at HSK 3, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.

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