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Word and Radical Components of 卧室

The Chinese word 卧室 is analysed below into its constituent words and the words into radicals. By seeing the breakdown of the word in this way you can more easily learn and recognise the word.


Component Pinyin Meanings
卧室 1. Simplified form of 臥室

卧室 ⇨ 卧 + 室
Component Pinyin Meanings
卧 1. Simplified form of 臥
2. usage. (Chinese-region variant characters, 臥, 卧)
室 室 1. room (in a building or house); chamber
     兩 室 一 廳 - two rooms and one living room
2.    (specifically in addresses) apartment number; flat number
3. (literary, or in compounds) family; household; clan
4. (literary, or in compounds) family member; dependent
5.    (specifically, literary, or in compounds) wife
6. (literary, or in compounds) organ (part of an organism) shaped like a chamber; body cavity; ventricle
7. (literary, or in compounds) work unit; administrative unit
8. (literary, or in compounds) court; dynasty
9. (literary, or in compounds) home; house
10. (literary, or in compounds) office
11. (literary, or in compounds) coffin pit; grave
12. (literary, or in compounds) scabbard; sheath
13. (astronomy) Encampment (a Chinese constellation near Pegasus)

卧 ⇨ 臣 + 卜
Component Pinyin Meanings
臣 chén 1. (obsolete) slave; servant; captive
2. minister; statesman; official
3. (more broadly) subjects of a monarch
4. to make a subject
5. (humble, historical or archaic) I, me; your servant (humble pronoun, especially when speaking to a monarch)
卜 bǔ 1. divination
2. to divine
3. (literary) to foretell; to predict
     生死未卜 - no one knows whether the person is dead of alive
4. (literary) to choose
     卜居 - to choose a place to live
5. Simplified form of 蔔
6. Variant of 欲

室 ⇨ 宀 + 至
Component Pinyin Meanings
宀 mián 1. a type of deep house with walls on all four sides, a roof, a main hall, and back rooms
2. a kind of flower
3. (Kangxi radical #40 宀* (“roof”))
4. usage. As a component, often referred to as 寶蓋頭.
至 zhì 1. to reach; to arrive
2. extreme; most
3. (literary, or in compounds) extreme point; limit
4. from … to …
5.    from … to … (a time)
6.   三 至 五月 - from March to May
7.    from … to … (a place)
8. (Cantonese) only then
dié 9. Only used in 單至