房
房 — bang
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 방 방
- Romanization
- bang
- English
- house, building; room; 4th lunar mansion, determinative star π Scorpii
- Mandarin
- fáng
- Japanese on'yomi
- ボウ, ホウ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- ふさ
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Secondary (Jōyō)
- Newspaper frequency
- #808 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 戶 (63, 4 residual)
- Phonetic component
- 方(방)
- Unicode
- U+623F
Parts that make up 房
How 房 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 房 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 戶, 方.
Korean example words with 房
- 동방同房 Korean gloss: 같은 방
- 방내房內 Korean gloss: 방의 안
- 규방閨房 Korean gloss: 부부의 침실
- 산방産房 Korean gloss: 해산하는 방
- 선방禪房 Korean gloss: 참선하는 방
- 각방各房 Korean gloss: 따로따로의 방
- 고방庫房 Korean gloss: ‘광’의 원말
- 침방寢房 Korean gloss: 잠을 자는 방
- 객방客房 Korean gloss: 손님이 묵는 방
- 점방店房 Korean gloss: 가게로 쓰는 방
- 승방僧房 Korean gloss: 여승들이 사는 절
- 합방合房 Korean gloss: 잠자리를 같이 함
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 房
- 官房長官かんぼうちょうかん Chief Cabinet Secretary (Japan); Chief of Staff (to the President, Prime Minister, etc.); Cabinet Secretary
- 官房かんぼう government secretariat
- 房ふさ tuft (of hair, threads, etc.); fringe; tassel
- 書房しょぼう study; library; bookstore
- 女房にょうぼう wife (esp. one's own wife); court lady; female court attache
- 冷房れいぼう air conditioning; air cooling
- 暖房だんぼう (indoor) heating
- 工房こうぼう workshop; studio; atelier
- 内閣官房ないかくかんぼう Cabinet Secretariat
- 乳房ちぶさ breast; udder
- 冷暖房れいだんぼう air conditioning and heating
- 文房具ぶんぼうぐ stationery
Characters sharing the phonetic 方
Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike. Most of this group are read “방” in Korean.
Other hanja read “방”
Other hanja with radical 戶
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences