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Mythic Mandarin

房东 (fáng dōng): meaning and stroke order

房东 (fáng dōng) means landlord.

房东

Simplified
房东
Traditional
房東
Pinyin
fáng dōng

Stroke order of 房东

房

  • Fáng surname Fang
  • fáng house; room
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

东

  • Dōng surname Dong
  • dōng east; host (i.e. sitting on east side of guest)
  • 5 strokes
  • Traditional form: 東

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 房东

  1. fáng dōng Traditional 房東
    • landlord

Radicals of the characters

房
Radical 戶 (Kangxi radical 63) · 8 strokes · built from 户 and 方
东
Radical 一 (Kangxi radical 1) · 5 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

房东 in our stories

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  • 她问房东:“这么好的房间,为什么这么便宜?”

    tā wèn fángdōng zhème hǎo de fángjiān wèishénme zhème piányi

    She asks the landlord, "Why is such a nice room so cheap?"

    From the story The cheap room HSK 3

Stories using 房东

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).