Chinese Character Wiki
房

fáng

house

Phonosemantic compound. 户 represents the meaning and 方 represents the sound.

Components
户 meaning component

户  Meaning component

hù

  

door

方 sound component

方  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

房  

fáng

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

房  

Fáng

surname Fang

Most common words with 房
Freq.
Word
Meaning

房子

house

房间

room

房

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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