HSK 3.0 Level 3 · Places

室 shì “room” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 室 means

  1. room
  2. work unit
  3. grave
  4. scabbard
  5. family or clan
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • one of the 28 constellations of Chinese astronomy

How to say 室

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale室shì4th tone, falling

室 in a sentence

  1. 我们的教室非常小。

    Wǒmen de jiàoshì fēicháng xiǎo.

    Our classroom is very small.

    Sentence #3378103 from Tatoeba

  2. 下午请到我办公室来。

    Xiàwǔ qǐng dào wǒ bàngōngshì lái.

    Please come to my office in the afternoon.

    Sentence #1424271 from Tatoeba

  3. 我的室友在学习中文。

    Wǒ de shìyǒu zài xuéxí Zhōngwén.

    My roommate is studying Chinese.

    Sentence #10192333 from Tatoeba

How 室 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 室 (shì) with each of its parts in a different colour
室shìroom
  • 宀roof · miánMeaning part
  • 至arrive · zhìSound part

宀 hints at the meaning (roof); 至 (zhì) hints at the sound. Compare it with shì.

Memory aidA roof 宀 you arrive 至 under: a room.

How to write 室

室 9 strokes

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

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

Words related to 室

Words with 室

教室jiàoshì · classroom办公室bàngōngshì · office卧室wòshì · bedroom

More words: Places & Getting Around

中zhōng · middle汽车qìchē · car房子fángzi · house街jiē · street北běi · north南方nánfāng · the south花园huāyuán · garden西方xīfāng · the West

FAQs

室 (shì) means “room” or “work unit”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it shì: shì with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 室 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type shi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 室 from the suggestions. Typing shi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
室 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.