房子 (fáng zi): meaning and stroke order
房子 (fáng zi) means house, building (single- or two-story), apartment, room, 栋,幢,座,套间.
房子
- Simplified
- 房子
- Traditional
- 房子 (same form)
- Pinyin
- fáng zi
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Stroke order of 房子
房
- Fáng surname Fang
- fáng house; room
- 8 strokes
Stroke by stroke
子
- zǐ son; child
- zi noun suffix, as in 椅子[yi3 zi5] "chair"
- 3 strokes
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Meaning of 房子
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fáng zi
- house
- building (single- or two-story)
- apartment
- room
- CL:棟|栋[dong4],幢[zhuang4],座[zuo4],套[tao4],間|间[jian1]
Radicals of the characters
- 房
- Radical 戶 (Kangxi radical 63) · 8 strokes · built from 户 and 方
- 子
- Radical 子 (Kangxi radical 39) · 3 strokes · built from 了 and 一
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.
房子 in our stories
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她在网上看了很多房子，不是太贵，就是离公司太远。
tā zài wǎngshang kàn le hěn duō fángzi bú shì tài guì jiùshì lí gōngsī tài yuǎn
She has looked at lots of places online: they are either too expensive or too far from the office.
From the story The cheap room HSK 3
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暑假的时候，苏晴住在外婆的老房子里。
shǔjià de shíhou Sū Qíng zhù zài wàipó de lǎo fángzi lǐ
During the summer holidays Su Qing stays in her grandmother's old house.
From the story The noise upstairs HSK 3
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洪水终于退了，百姓能重新种地、盖房子。人们感激他，后来推举他做了首领。
hóngshuǐ zhōngyú tuì le bǎixìng néng chóngxīn zhòng dì gài fángzi rénmen gǎnjī tā hòulái tuījǔ tā zuò le shǒulǐng
At last the flood receded, and people could farm and build again. They were so grateful that they later chose him as their leader.
From the story Yu the Great tames the flood HSK 6
Stories using 房子
- The cheap room HSK 3
- The noise upstairs HSK 3
- Yu the Great tames the flood HSK 6
- No perfect answer HSK 6
- Great-uncle's wooden box HSK 6
- The persimmon tree over the wall HSK 7–9 · Level 9
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).