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洗衣房
xĭ yī fáng



洗衣房
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
xiǎn
     1. (Cantonese) (alt form, yue, 使, t=to need)
     2. Variant of 㭠
     3. Variant of 洒
xiǎn
     1. Variant of 杴
     2. Variant of ?
     1. Simplified form of 灑
     2. Variant of 洗
     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
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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