瓦；砖(tile)
薄而扁平的板或砌块，用作建筑的结构材料或装饰材料。过去一直是用上釉或不上釉的耐火黏土制成，现代则用塑胶、玻璃、沥青、石绵水泥及软木来制造。陶瓷砖由黏土通过机械压制而成，结实耐用，通常用作墙壁、地板和工作台面结构材料。机制花砖（通过用作地面装饰材料）和陶瓦砖，采用天然黏土制成，耐力较小并有空隙，但因其经济实惠且造型美观而广为使用。建筑砖由黏土烧制而成，此类砖总心多孔洞，通常用於建筑隔离物。烘制或大理石屋盯砖通常见於古希腊建筑中。此外，砖块建筑也被广泛用於伊斯兰建筑中。有色玻璃砖早期（参阅azulejo）已经在西班牙被普遍使用，并传到葡萄牙和拉丁美洲国家。西元15世纪，制砖工业已经在欧洲北部闻名，尤其是代夫特的蓝色面砖。现代的黏土屋顶面砖或平坦或弯曲，在地中海地区，S形面砖（波形瓦），表面凸凹起伏，并被普遍使用。而现代的墙砖多采用玻璃砖或半玻璃砖。
English version：
tile
Thin, flat slab or block used structurally or decoratively in building. Traditionally, tiles have been made of glazed or unglazed fired clay, but modern tiles are also made of plastic, glass, asphalt, and even cork. Ceramic tiles, used for walls, floors, and countertops, are usually machine-pressed, made of fine clays, and very hard. Quarry tiles (used for flooring) and terra-cotta, made of natural clays, are less hard and more porous but very popular for economic and aesthetic reasons. Structural tile, of fired clay, is a hollow tile containing parallel cells or cores, used for building partitions. Roof tiles of baked clay and of marble were used in ancient Greece. Tiles came to be widely used in Islamic architecture. Colored glazed tiles were common in Spain from an early period (see azulejo), and from there spread to Portugal and Latin America. By the 15th century tilework was used widely in northern Europe; blue-painted tiles from Delft were especially renowned. Modern clay roofing tiles may be flat or curved; around the Mediterranean, S-shaped tiles (pantiles), laid with alternate convex and concave surfaces uppermost, are common. Modern wall tiles may be highly glazed and semivitreous.