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厢

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box (in theater); side room; side

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Old HSK
Level 5
Strokes
11
Radical
厂 +9
Structure
Upper-left enclosure 左上包
Traditional
廂
Common rank
#2,634
Unicode
U+53A2

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Formation & memory

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How 厢 is formed

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

厂 meaning “building” + 相 sound ( xiāng )

Components 厂 相

How to remember it

side room · Heisig RSH #1576

cliff + 相 one another

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words with 厢

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

WordPinyinMeaning
城厢区 Chéng xiāng Qū Chengxiang, a district of Putian City 莆田市[Pu2 tian2 Shi4], Fujian
厢式车 xiāng shì chē van
一厢情愿 yī xiāng qíng yuàn one's own wishful thinking
西厢记 Xī xiāng Jì Romance of the West Chamber by Wang Shifu 王實甫|王实甫[Wang2 Shi2 fu3]
厢型车 xiāng xíng chē van (Tw)
两厢情愿 liǎng xiāng qíng yuàn both sides are willing; by mutual consent
一壁厢 yī bì xiāng see 一壁[yi1 bi4]
三厢 sān xiāng sedan (automobile body type)
车厢 chē xiāng carriage; CL:節|节[jie2]
城厢 Chéng xiāng see 城廂區|城厢区[Cheng2 xiang1 Qu1]
包厢 bāo xiāng box (in a theater or concert hall); private room (in a restaurant or karaoke)
边厢 biān xiāng side; side-room; room in the wings
厢房 xiāng fáng wing (of a traditional house); side room
楼厢 lóu xiāng loft
壁厢 bì xiāng lateral; side; to the side; beside
轿厢 jiào xiāng elevator car; cable car cabin; gondola (on a Ferris wheel)

Sound family

Characters sharing the sound component 相 — compare how they read.

CharacterPinyinMeaning
相 sound part xiāng mutual, reciprocal; equal; each other
想 xiǎng to believe, to wish for; to consider, to plan, to think
箱 xiāng box, case; chest, trunk
霜 shuāng frost; frozen, crystallized, candied
湘 xiāng Hunan province; the Xiangjiang river
葙 xiāng feather cockscomb; Celosia argentea
缃 xiāng light-yellow color