漢字Kanji · in Structures & Home
房: tassel, tuft
Also: fringe, bunch, lock (hair), segment (orange), house, room
JLPT N18 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
戸 carries the meaning · 方 gives the sound
8 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
ボウbou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 官房かんぼう
- 書房しょぼうstudy; library
- 女房にょうぼう
- 冷房れいぼう
- 工房こうぼうworkshop; studio; atelier
- 暖房だんぼう(indoor) heating
ふさfusa · kun'yomi · on its own
- 房ふさtuft (of hair, threads, etc.); fringe
- 乳房ちぶさ
Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)戶 door (meaning) + 方 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 房 (rev. 93766353), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Door (戸) + direction/side (方). Represents a "side room" or a small "chamber" within a house—now also used for clusters or "tassels" of items.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
房 takes the 方 family's reading, ボウ (bou).
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side房 tassel · 戸
vs肪 obese · 月In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · fáng
Same form: 房 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 房 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 房 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin fáng most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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