HSK 3.0 Level 3 · Places

房子 fángzi “house” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 房子 means

  1. house
  2. building
  3. building (single- or two-story)
  4. apartment
  5. room

Measure word 栋 dòng or 幢 zhuàng · 一栋房子 yí dòng fángzi

How to say 房子

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale房fáng2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own子zineutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

房子 in a sentence

  1. 他的房子又小又旧。

    Tā de fángzi yòu xiǎo yòu jiù.

    His house is small and old.

    Sentence #334638 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 这是我年轻时候住的房子。

    Zhè shì wǒ niánqīng shíhou zhù de fángzi.

    This is the house I lived in when I was young.

    Sentence #334790 from Tatoeba

  3. 你想看房子吗？

    Nǐ xiǎng kàn fángzi ma?

    Do you want to see the house?

    Sentence #9963199 from Tatoeba

How 房子 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 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.

The character 子 (zi) with each of its parts in a different colour
子zinoun suffix, as in 椅子 “chair”
  • 了clear · le
  • 一one · yī

Memory aidA baby with its arms out and its legs wrapped up.

How to write 房子

房 8 strokes · 子 3 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

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

Words related to 房子

Words with 房

房间fángjiān · room房东fángdōng · landlord厨房chúfáng · kitchen

Words with 子

儿子érzi · son椅子yǐzi · chair桌子zhuōzi · table杯子bēizi · cup妻子qīzi · wife孩子háizi · child本子běnzi · book子zi · (common noun suffix)裤子kùzi · pants帽子màozi · hat

More words: Places & Getting Around

下去xiàqù · to go down走路zǒulù · to walk中zhōng · middle汽车qìchē · car街jiē · street室shì · room北běi · north南方nánfāng · the south

FAQs

房子 (fángzi) means “house” or “building”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it fángzi: fáng with a 2nd tone, then zi with a neutral tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 房子 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Use 栋 (dòng) or 幢 (zhuàng). For example, one house is 一栋房子 (yí dòng fángzi).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type fangzi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 房子 from the suggestions. Typing fangzi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
房子 is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 4 word list. It is not on the older 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.