Chinese Character Wiki
屋

wū

house, room

Depicts a roof (广) over a room (室).

Components
广 iconic component

广  Iconic component

yǎn, guǎng

  

roof

Depicts a roof. Modern form looks like 尸.

室 meaning,remnant component

室  Meaning Remnant component

shì

  

room

Evolution

屋 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
屋 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
屋 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

屋  

wū

house; room; building, shelter; CL:間|间[jiān],個|个[gè]

Most common words with 屋
Freq.
Word
Meaning

屋

house

房屋

house

屋子

house

屋顶

roof

小屋

cabin

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

幄

Sound component in 6 characters (2 verified)

握 喔 渥 齷 龌 幄

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qˤok (or *ʔˤok ?)

'uwk

wū

house; roof


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 44.9303% of movies

866th most common character in movies

863rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+5C4B

Shuowen

“屋，居也。从尸，尸，所主也。一曰尸象屋形；从至，至，所至止。室、屋皆从至。，籀文屋，从厂。，古文屋。”


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