房

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

Translingual

Stroke order
8 strokes
Japanese 房
Simplified 房
Traditional 房

Han character

房 (Kangxi 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

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

Chinese

trad. 房
simp. # 房

Glyph origin

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

Also could be an ideogrammic compound (會意/会意) : 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

Etymology not certain. Probably Sino-Tibetan; compare Tibetan བང་བ (bang ba, “storeroom; storehouse”), Burmese ဝင်း (wang:, “enclosure”) (Bodman, 1980). Alternatively, compare Tibetan བྲང (brang, “house”) (as in ཕོ་བྲང (pho brang, “palace”) and བྲང་ཁང (brang khang, “dwelling house”)) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation


Note:
  • Sixian:
    • Pióng - surname;
    • fòng - other senses.
  • Meixian:
    • piong2 - surname;
    • fong2 - other senses.

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
Baxter bjang
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
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
fong4
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

房

  1. house
    我一個人在房裡/我一个人在房里  ―  wǒ yī ge rén zài fáng lǐ  ―  I'm alone in the house.
  2. room (Classifier: 間/间 m c)
    我可以把提包撂在你房裡嗎? [MSC, trad.]
    我可以把提包撂在你房里吗? [MSC, simp.]
    Wǒ kěyǐ bǎ tíbāo liào zài nǐ fáng lǐ ma? [Pinyin]
    Can I dump my bags in your room?
    我已經把這間房分給你了。 [MSC, trad.]
    我已经把这间房分给你了。 [MSC, simp.]
    Wǒ yǐjīng bǎ zhè jiān fáng fēn gěi nǐ le. [Pinyin]
    I have allocated this room to you.
  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
    行房  ―  xíngfáng  ―  to go to bed with
  7. (Mainland China) apartment (Classifier: 套 m)
  8. (Taiwan) apartment (Classifier: 間/间 m)
  9. 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
  10. Classifier for wives, concubines or daughters-in-law.
    娶一房側室/娶一房侧室  ―  qǔ yī fáng cèshì  ―  to take a concubine
    兩房媳婦/两房媳妇  ―  liǎng fáng xífù  ―  two daughters-in-law
  11. Classifier for fruits: bunch
  12. (~宿) (Chinese astronomy) Room (one of Twenty-Eight Mansions)
  13. a surname. Fang
    房玄齡/房玄龄  ―  Fáng Xuánlíng  ―  Fang Xuanling (Tang dynasty politician)
  14. (~縣) Fang County (a county of Shiyan, Hubei, China)
  15. (obsolete) side room
Synonyms
  • (house):
  • (room):
  • (apartment): (Hong Kong) 樓/楼 (lau4-2)
See also

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (房):
  • → Japanese: 房(ぼう) (bō)
  • → Korean: 방(房) (bang)
  • → Vietnamese: phòng (房)

Others:

Pronunciation



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
Baxter bang
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
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
pong4
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

房

  1. Used in 阿房宮/阿房宫 (Ēfánggōng).
  2. Used in 房皇, alternative form of 彷徨 (pánghuáng)

References

Japanese

Shinjitai 房
Kyūjitai
[1][2]

房󠄁
房+&#xE0101;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
房󠄃
房+&#xE0103;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

房

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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

Readings

From Middle Chinese 房 (MC bjang); compare Mandarin 房 (fáng):

From Middle Chinese 房 (MC bang); compare Mandarin 房 (páng):

From native Japanese roots:

Etymology

Kanji in this term
房
ふさ
Grade: S
kun’yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 房 – see the following entry.
【ふさ】
[noun] tassel
[noun] bunch (of flowers or fruit, e.g. grapes)
Alternative spelling
総
(This term, 房, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

References

  1. “房”, in 漢字ぺディア (Kanjipedia)‎ (in Japanese), 日本漢字能力検定協会, 2015–2024
  2. Haga, Gōtarō (1914) 漢和大辞書 [The Great Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Fourth edition, Tōkyō: Kōbunsha, →DOI, page 920 (paper), page 510 (digital)

Korean

Hanja

房 (eumhun 방 방 (bang bang))

  1. Hanja form? of 방 (“room”).

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

房: Hán Nôm readings: phòng, buồng

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