房
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house; room; CL:間|间[jian1]; branch of an extended family; classifier for family members (or concubines)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 1
- Old HSK
- Level 2
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 戶 +4
- Structure
- Upper-left enclosure 左上包
- Traditional
- 房
- Common rank
- #333
- Unicode
- U+623F
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 房
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 房子 | house; building (single- or two-story); apartment; room; CL:棟|栋[dong4],幢[zhuang4],座[zuo4],… | |
| 房间 | room; CL:間|间[jian1] | |
| 房山区 | Fangshan, a district of Beijing | |
| 学区房 | a residential property located within the designated catchment area of a desirable school,… | |
| 平房区 | Pingfang, a district of Harbin City 哈爾濱市|哈尔滨市[Ha1 er3 bin1 Shi4], Heilongjiang | |
| 眼房水 | aqueous humor | |
| 公事房 | (old) government office | |
| 房地美 | Freddie Mac, US mortgage company; formerly Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. | |
| 子房 | ovary (botany) | |
| 房县 | Fang County or Fangxian, a county in Shiyan City 十堰市[Shi2 yan4 Shi4], Hubei | |
| 房山 | see 房山區|房山区[Fang2 shan1 Qu1] | |
| 房市 | real estate market | |
| 心房 | heart (as the seat of emotions); cardiac atrium | |
| 二手房 | second-hand house; house acquired indirectly through a middle-man | |
| 马房 | horse stable | |
| 机房 | machine room; engine room; computer room | |
| 阳光房 | sunroom | |
| 花房 | greenhouse | |
| 行房 | euphemism for sexual intercourse; to go to bed with sb | |
| 上房 | see 正房[zheng4 fang2] |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 方 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 方 sound part | square, rectangle; side; region; flag | |
| 放 | to release, to liberate, to free | |
| 防 | to protect, to defend, to guard against | |
| 访 | to visit; to inquire, to ask | |
| 旁 | side; beside, close, nearby | |
| 仿 | to imitate, to copy; fake; as if | |
| 坊 | neighborhood, district, community; street, lane; mill | |
| 芳 | fragrant; beautiful, virtuous | |
| 纺 | to spin, to weave, to reel | |
| 肪 | animal fat | |
| 妨 | damage, harm; to impede, to obstruct; to undermine | |
| 邡 | a district in Sichuan province | |
| 彷 | similar, alike; to resemble | |
| 舫 | yacht, fancy boat | |
| 昉 | dawn, daybreak; to appear | |
| 鲂 | bream | |
| 钫 | francium |