Chinese Word of the Day

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	shǐ
1. cause, send on a mission, order
2. envoy, messenger, ambassador
3. to order to do
4. to send; to dispatch
5. to let; to make; to cause to
6. to use; to employ
7. to play; to play with; to resort to; to dally with
8. to indulge
9. (Cantonese) need to do something; have to
你唔使攞lo2 咁多！ - You don't need to get so much!
10. (Cantonese) need something; require; want strongly
11. (historical) to send as an envoy abroad
12. envoy; messenger
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 Min) afterbirth; placenta
衣錦還huán鄉 - to return home in glory
房	fáng
1. house
2. room
3. house-like structure
4. branch of a family
5. wife; concubine
6. sexual activity
7. (astronomy) the Room (a Chinese constellation, 4th of the Twenty-Eight Mansions and part of the Azure Dragon)
8. Fang
9. Only used in 阿房宮 ((Epang Palace))
10. Only used in 房皇 (wavering; pacing up and down,) (zh-alt-form, 彷徨)
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