室

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

室 (Kangxi radical 40, 宀+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 十一戈土 (JMIG), four-corner 3010₄, composition ⿱宀至)

See also

• 房
• 屋

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 285, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7136
• Dae Jaweon: page 563, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 925, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5BA4

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		室

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 室
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (至) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
致	*tiɡs
輊	*tiɡs
駤	*tiɡs
跮	*tʰiɡs, *tʰiɡ
荎	*di, *diːɡ
緻	*diɡs
至	*tjiɡs
鵄	*tʰji
胵	*tʰji
痓	*tʰjiɡs
咥	*hriɡs, *tiːɡ, *diːɡ, *tʰiɡ
窒	*tiːɡ, *tiɡ
蛭	*tiːɡ, *tiɡ, *tjiɡ
垤	*diːɡ
耋	*diːɡ
姪	*diːɡ, *diɡ
絰	*diːɡ
恎	*diːɡ
挃	*tiɡ
庢	*tiɡ
銍	*tiɡ, *tjiɡ
秷	*tiɡ
螲	*tiɡ
侄	*diɡ, *tjiɡ
桎	*tjiɡ
郅	*tjiɡ
晊	*tjiɡ
室	*hliɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *hliɡ) : semantic 宀 (“roof”) + phonetic 至 (OC *tjiɡs).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 室

1. room; chamber
2. court; dynasty
3. home; house
4. (in addresses) apartment number; flat number
5. office
6. wife
7. tomb; grave
8. (astronomy) Encampment, a Chinese constellation near Pegasus

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

室

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. room

Readings

• Go-on: しち (shichi)
• Kan-on: しつ (shitsu, Jōyō)
• Kun: むろ (muro, 室, Jōyō); へや (heya, 室)

Compounds

Compounds

• 教(きょう)室(しつ) (kyōshitsu): classroom
• 室外(しつがい) (shitsugai): outside a room, outdoor
• 室内(しつない) (shitsunai): inside a room, indoor
• 寝室(しんしつ) (shinshitsu): bedroom
• 霊安室(れいあんしつ) (reianshitsu): morgue

Kanji in this term
室
しつ Grade: 2
on’yomi

Noun

室(しつ) • (shitsu) 

1. room

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Korean

Hanja

室 • (sil)

• Eumhun:
  • Sound (hangeul): 실 (revised: sil, McCune–Reischauer: shil, Yale: sil)
  • Name (hangeul): 집
    (revised: jip, McCune–Reischauer: chip, Yale: cip)

1. room
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Compounds

• 실내 (室內, silnae)
• 교실 (敎室, gyosil)
• 객실 (客室, gaeksil)
• 거실 (居室, geosil)
• 별실 (別室, byeolsil)
• 침실 (寢室, chimsil)
• 암실 (暗室, amsil)
• 정실 (正室, jeongsil)
• 측실 (側室, cheuksil)
• 내실 (內室, naesil)
• 석실 (石室, seoksil)
• 빙실 (氷室, bingsil)
• 황실 (皇室, hwangsil)
• 왕실 (王室, wangsil)
• 사무실 (事務室, samusil)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 室 (thất)

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