(fáng zi) - house, building, dwelling in Mandarin
fángziTraditional: 房子
Translation
house, building, dwelling
Word origin
A two-character word: 房 (fang) 'house', built on the 户 'door' radical, plus the noun suffix 子 (zi). The combination means 'house, building'.
- Origin
- compound
- Root
- 房 (fang, 'house', 户 door radical) + 子 (zi, noun suffix)
Stroke order
房
子
Examples
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This house is very beautiful.
套。
He bought a house.
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We live in a small house.
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This house is really lovely.
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He's buying a house in the city.
房子 (fáng zi) - house, building, dwelling.
Used in
Grammar articles
(7)Mandarin Adjectives as Stative Verbs: Why 'I Am Cold' Is 我冷, Not 我是冷
The Mandarin 被 (bèi) Passive: Saying Something Was Done To the Subject
Mandarin Location and Existence: 在 for Where, 有 for There Is, and the 上/下/里/外 Position Words
Mandarin Possession with 的 (de): My, Your, His, and When Mandarin Drops the Particle
Mandarin Potential Complements: Can You Reach the Result? (吃得完, 听不懂, 买不起)
Mandarin Question Formation: 吗, V-Not-V, 还是, and the In-Situ Wh-Word System
Mandarin Word Order: SVO, Topic-Comment, and the 把 Construction That Reorders Everything
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