房

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房 U+623F, 房
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-623F
← 戾
[U+623E] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 所 →
[U+6240]

Translingual[edit]

Japanese 房
Simplified 房
Traditional 房

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)

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]

trad. 房
simp. # 房

Glyph origin[edit]

Characters in the same phonetic series (方) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
縍 *paːŋ
榜 *paːŋʔ, *praːŋs, *braːŋ
蒡 *paːŋʔ, *braːŋ
牓 *paːŋʔ
螃 *paːŋʔ, *paːŋs, *baːŋ
搒 *paːŋs, *braːŋ
舫 *paːŋs, *paŋs
謗 *paːŋs
雱 *pʰaːŋ
磅 *pʰaːŋ, *pʰraːŋ
霶 *pʰaːŋ
滂 *pʰaːŋ
鎊 *pʰaːŋ
髈 *pʰaːŋʔ, *baːŋ
彷 *baːŋ, *pʰaŋʔ
趽 *baːŋ, *paŋ, *paŋs
房 *baːŋ, *baŋ
篣 *baːŋ, *braːŋ
騯 *baːŋ, *praːŋ, *braːŋ
傍 *baːŋ, *baːŋs
膀 *baːŋ
旁 *baːŋ
徬 *baːŋs
閍 *praːŋ
祊 *praːŋ
嗙 *praːŋ
方 *paŋ, *baŋ
汸 *paŋ
坊 *paŋ, *baŋ
邡 *paŋ, *pʰaŋs
枋 *paŋ
鈁 *paŋ
蚄 *paŋ
肪 *paŋ, *baŋ
鴋 *paŋ, *baŋ
牥 *paŋ
昉 *paŋʔ
瓬 *paŋʔ
放 *paŋʔ, *paŋs
倣 *paŋʔ
芳 *pʰaŋ
淓 *pʰaŋ
妨 *pʰaŋ, *pʰaŋs
紡 *pʰaŋʔ
仿 *pʰaŋʔ
髣 *pʰaŋʔ
鶭 *pʰaŋʔ
訪 *pʰaŋs
防 *baŋ, *baŋs
魴 *baŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *baːŋ, *baŋ): semantic 戶 (“door”) + phonetic 方 (OC *paŋ, *baŋ).

Also could be an Ideogrammic compound (會意): 戶 (“door”) + 方 (homonym of 旁 (OC *baːŋ, “side”)), as it originally referred to one of the two rooms beside the central room (side room).

Etymology 1[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Note:
  • Pióng - surname;
  • fòng - other senses.
  • Min Dong
  • Min Nan
    • Note:
    • pâng - vernacular (including surname in Taiwanese);
    • pông - literary (including surname in Xiamen, Quanzhou and Zhangzhou);
    • hông, phông - literary.
  • Wu
    • 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/

    Definitions[edit]

    房

    1. house
    2. room (Classifier: 間／间 m c)
    3. 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
    7. 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
    8. Classifier for wives, concubines or daughters-in-law.
    9. Classifier for fruits: bunch
    10. (astronomy) the Room (a Chinese constellation, 4th of the Twenty-Eight Mansions and part of the Azure Dragon)
    11. A surname​. Fang
    12. (～縣) Fang (a county of Shiyan, Hubei, China)
    13. (obsolete) side room

    Compounds[edit]

    Derived terms from 房

    See also[edit]

    Etymology 2[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. Used in 阿房宮／阿房宫 (Ēpánggōng, “Epang Palace”).
    2. Used in 房皇 (“wavering; pacing up and down”), alternative form of 彷徨 (pánghuáng).

    Japanese[edit]

    Kanji[edit]

    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, rōmaji 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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