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(fáng jiān) - room (in a building) in Mandarin

fángjiān

Traditional: 房間

Line drawing of 房间
Coloured illustration of 房间
HSK 3
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Translation

room (in a building)

Word origin

A compound of 房 (fang) 'house, room', built on the 户 'door' radical, and 间 (jian) 'space, interval', which depicts the sun or moon seen through a gate 门. Together: a 'room'.

Origin
compound
Root
房 (fang, 'room', 户 door radical) + 间 (jian, 'space', 门 gate radical)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 房

Stroke order for 间

Examples

My room is very small.

sǎo

Clean the room.

suǒ

He locked the room door.

It's too hot in the room.

sǎo

Please tidy the room.

房间 (fáng jiān) - room (in a building).

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