fáng

house

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
户 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

door

方 sound component

  Sound component

fāng

  

square

Evolution

房 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

fáng

house, building; room; house; CL:|[jiān]; branch of an extended family; classifier for family members (or concubines)

 

Fáng

surname Fang

Most common words with 房
Freq.
Word
Meaning

房子

house

房间

room

house

房地产

real estate

厨房

kitchen

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[Cə-N-]paŋ

bjang

fáng

side-room


Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 82.4924% of movies

302nd most common character in movies

512th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+623F

Shuowen

“房,室在旁也。从戶,方聲。”


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