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厨房 chúfáng “kitchen” in Chinese

Traditional 廚房

What 厨房 means

  1. kitchen

Measure word 间 jiān · 一间厨房 yì jiān chúfáng

How to say 厨房

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale厨chú2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale房fáng2nd tone, rising

厨房 in a sentence

  1. 我妹妹正在厨房做饭。

    Wǒ mèimei zhèngzài chúfáng zuòfàn.

    My little sister is cooking in the kitchen.

    Sentence #401032 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 厨房里有咖啡吗？

    Chúfáng lǐ yǒu kāfēi ma?

    Is there any coffee in the kitchen?

    Sentence #891150 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  3. 告诉孩子别进厨房。

    Gàosu háizi bié jìn chúfáng.

    Tell the children to stay out of the kitchen.

    Sentence #9779596 from Tatoeba

How 厨房 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 厨 (chú) with each of its parts in a different colour
厨chúkitchen
  • 厂cliff · hǎnMeaning part
  • 豆bean · dòuSound part
  • 寸inch · cùn

厂 hints at the meaning (cliff); 豆 (dòu) hints at the sound. Compare it with chú.

The character 房 (fáng) with each of its parts in a different colour
房fánghouse
  • 户door · hùMeaning part
  • 方square · fāngSound part

户 hints at the meaning (door); 方 (fāng) hints at the sound. Compare it with fáng.

How to write 厨房

厨 12 strokes · 房 8 strokes

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厨房 (chúfáng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 厨房 (chúfáng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 厨房

Words with 房

房间fángjiān · room房子fángzi · house房东fángdōng · landlord

More words: Places & Directions

中间zhōngjiān · middle中文Zhōngwén · Chinese language餐厅cāntīng · dining hall厕所cèsuǒ · toilet大使馆dàshǐguǎn · embassy地点dìdiǎn · place地址dìzhǐ · address郊区jiāoqū · suburban district

FAQs

厨房 (chúfáng) means “kitchen”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it chúfáng: chú with a 2nd tone, then fáng with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 厨房 is written 廚房. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 间 (jiān). For example, one kitchen is 一间厨房 (yì jiān chúfáng).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type chufang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 厨房 from the suggestions. Typing chufang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
厨房 is an HSK 4 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.