(shì) - room, chamber in Mandarin
shìTraditional: 室
Translation
room, chamber
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound with 宀 (the roof radical, signifying a building) over 至 (zhì, to arrive) as phonetic, originally an inner room of a house.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 宀 (roof) + 至 (zhì, phonetic)
Stroke order
室
Examples
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The classroom is on the second floor.
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This is the manager's office.
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There is a lot of equipment in the laboratory.
卧朝。
The bedroom window faces south.
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The meeting room is ready.
室 (shì) means a room or chamber. It rarely stands alone in modern speech and most often appears as a bound element, as in 教室 (classroom) and 办公室 (office).
Where this fits
Appears in 1 word
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 室.
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