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洗衣房xĭ yī fáng
laundry
Definitions
Chinese > English | ||
洗衣房 | xǐyīfáng | |
1. n. laundry (place or room where laundering is done) | ||
English > Chinese | ||
laundry | ||
1. 洗衣处 | ||
2. 洗衣店 | ||
3. 洗衣室 | ||
4. 洗衣 | ||
5. 洗涤物 | ||
Components | ||
洗 | xiǎn | |
1. (Cantonese) (alt form, yue, 使, t=to need) | ||
2. Variant of 㭠 | ||
3. Variant of 洒 | ||
㭠 | xiǎn | |
1. Variant of 杴 | ||
2. Variant of ? | ||
洒 | ||
1. Simplified form of 灑 | ||
2. Variant of 洗 | ||
衣 | yī | |
1. (upper) garment; clothes; clothing | ||
衣服 - clothes | ||
內衣 - underwear | ||
睡衣 - night clothes; pajamas | ||
2. coating; covering; skin | ||
糖衣 - sugar coating | ||
槍衣 - gun cover | ||
3. membrane; film | ||
4. (literary or dialectal) afterbirth; placenta | ||
衣yì錦還huán鄉 - to return home in glory | ||
房 | fáng | |
1. house | ||
我 一.個.人 在 房 裡 - I'm alone in the house. | ||
2. room | ||
我 可以 把 提包 撂 在 你 房 裡 嗎? - Can I dump my bags in your room? | ||
我 已經 把 這 間 房 分 給 你 了。 - I have allocated this room to you. | ||
3. house-like structure | ||
心房 - heart (as a house of emotions); cardiac atrium | ||
4. branch of a family | ||
二房 - second son and his family | ||
5. wife; concubine | ||
妻房 - wife | ||
二房 - concubine | ||
偏房 - concubine | ||
收房 - to take as concubine | ||
6. sexual activity | ||
行房 - to go to bed with | ||
7. (mainland) apartment | ||
8. (Taiwan) apartment | ||
三 房 親戚qi - three relatives | ||
四 房 兄弟 - four brothers | ||
娶 一 房 側室 - to take a concubine | ||
兩 房 媳婦 - two daughters-in-law | ||
9. (astronomy) the Room (a Chinese constellation, 4th of the Twenty-Eight Mansions and part of the Azure Dragon) | ||
10. . Fang | ||
房 玄-齡 - Fang Xuanling (Tang dynasty politician) | ||
11. (zh-div, 縣) place, zh, t=Fang County, county, prefecture-level city/Shiyan, p/Hubei, c/China | ||
12. (obsolete) side room | ||
13. (zh-used in, 阿房宮, gloss=Epang Palace) | ||
14. (zh-used in, 房皇, gloss=wavering; pacing up and down,) Alternative form of 彷徨 | ||
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Pronunciation
xĭ yī fáng
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