房

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Translingual[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *baːŋ, *baŋ): semantic 戶 ‎(“door”) + phonetic 方 ‎(OC *paŋ, *baŋ). Also Ideogrammic compound (會意): 戶 ‎(“door”) + 方 (homonym of 旁, "side"), as it originally referred to one of the two rooms beside the central room.

Han character[edit]

房 (radical 63 戶+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹尸卜竹尸 (HSYHS) or 戈尸卜竹尸 (ISYHS), four-corner 30227, composition ⿸戶方 or ⿸户方 or ⿸戸方)

  1. house, building
  2. room

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 415, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11714
  • Dae Jaweon: page 759, character 16
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2260, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+623F

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.
 房

Etymology 1[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Rime
Character 房
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 陽 (106)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 符方切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /bʉɐŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /bʷiɐŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /biuɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /buaŋ/
Li
Rong		 /biuaŋ/
Wang
Li		 /bĭwaŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /bʱiwaŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 fáng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 房
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 fáng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ bjang ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[Cə-N-]paŋ/
English side-room

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 房
Reading # 2/2
No. 3052
Phonetic
component		 方
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 房
Old
Chinese		 /*baŋ/

Noun[edit]

房

  1. house
  2. room   (Classifier: 間／间 m c)
  3. a house-like structure
    • 心房  ―  xīnfáng  ―  heart (as a house of emotions); cardiac atrium
  4. branch of a family
    • 二房  ―  èrfáng  ―  second son and his family
  5. wife, concubine
    • 妻房  ―  qīfáng  ―  wife
    • 二房  ―  èrfáng  ―  concubine
    • 偏房  ―  piānfáng  ―  concubine
    • 收房  ―  shōufáng  ―  to take as concubine
  6. sexual activity

Classifier[edit]

房

  1. Classifier for relatives.
    • 三房親戚 / 三房亲戚  ―  sān fáng qīnqi  ―  three relatives
    • 四房兄弟  ―  sì fáng xiōngdì  ―  four brothers
  2. Classifier for wives, concubines or daughters-in-law.
  3. Classifier for fruits; bunch

Proper noun[edit]

房

  1. (astronomy) the Room (a Chinese constellation, 4th of the Twenty-Eight Mansions 二十八宿 and part of the Azure Dragon 青龍／青龙 (qīnglóng))

Etymology 2[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Rime
Character 房
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 陽 (106)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 符方切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /bʉɐŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /bʷiɐŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /biuɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /buaŋ/
Li
Rong		 /biuaŋ/
Wang
Li		 /bĭwaŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /bʱiwaŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 fáng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 房
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 fáng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ bjang ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[Cə-N-]paŋ/
English side-room

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 房
Reading # 2/2
No. 3052
Phonetic
component		 方
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 房
Old
Chinese		 /*baŋ/

Proper noun[edit]

房

  1. A surname​. Fang

Etymology 3[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Rime
Character 房
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 唐 (101)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 步光切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /bɑŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /bɑŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /bɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /baŋ/
Li
Rong		 /bɑŋ/
Wang
Li		 /bɑŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /bʱɑŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 páng
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 房
Reading # 1/2
No. 3002
Phonetic
component		 方
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 傍
Old
Chinese		 /*baːŋ/

Definitions[edit]

房

  1. Only used in 阿房宮／阿房宫.
  2. Only used in 房皇, alternative form of 彷徨

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

See also:
房

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. chamber; room
  2. home of a monk; monk
  3. Chinese "room" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)

Readings[edit]

Noun[edit]

房 ‎(hiragana ふさ, romaji fusa)

  1. tassel
  2. bunch (of flowers or fruit, e.g. grapes)

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

房 • ‎(bang)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 방 (revised: bang, McCune-Reischauer: pang, Yale: pang)
  • Name (hangeul): 방()
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Compounds[edit]

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

房 (phòng, buồng)

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