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房间fáng jiān
room
Definitions
| Chinese > English | |
| 房间 | |
| 1. Simplified form of 房間 | |
| 房間 | fángjiān |
| 1. n. room (in a building or house) | |
| 房間 分隔物 - room divider | |
| 整理 房間 - to tidy up a room | |
| 打掃 房間 - to clean a room | |
| English > Chinese | |
| room | |
| 1. 名词. 室 | |
| 2. 名词. 房间 | |
| Components | |
| 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. (place, zh, t=Fang County, county, prefecture-level city/Shiyan, p/Hubei, c/China) | |
| 12. (obsolete) side room | |
| 13. Used in 阿房宮 (gloss=Epang Palace) | |
| 14. Used in 房皇 (gloss=wavering; pacing up and down,) Alternative form of 彷徨 | |
| 间 | |
| 1. Simplified form of 間 | |
| 間 | jiān |
| 1. (within a definite time period or place) | |
| 時間 - time, period | |
| 晚間 - evening, night | |
| 世間 - world, earth | |
| 空間 - space | |
| 2. among; between | |
| 小 鳥 們 在 樹枝 間 唱 歌。 - The birds were singing among the branches of the tree. | |
| 兩 個 公司 間 的 談判 非常 成功。 - The negotiations between the two companies were successful. | |
| 兩 點 間 直線 最 短。 - The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. | |
| 3. a moment; a little while; instant | |
| 4. room; chamber | |
| 房間 - room | |
| 衛生間 - bathroom, toilet | |
| 衣帽間 - cloakroom | |
| 雙人間 - double room | |
| 5. section of a room; lateral space between two pairs of pillars | |
| 6. (chiefly Cantonese) | |
| 7. opening; gap; break | |
| 8. estrangement; alienation; hostility | |
| 9. spy; secret agent | |
| 10. to keep away from; to keep apart | |
| 11. to separate; to partition | |
| 12. to alternate; to do something alternately | |
| 13. to be mixed up with; to be intermingled | |
| 14. to sow discord | |
| 15. to blame; to reproach | |
| 16. intermittently; sometimes | |
| 17. in secret; clandestinely | |
| 18. (obsolete) (Variant pronunciation of the classifier sense.) | |
| 19. (obsolete) Used in place names | |
Pronunciation
fáng jiān
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