HSK 4 · Family

房东 fángdōng “landlord” in Chinese

Traditional 房東

What 房东 means

  1. landlord

How to say 房东

  • 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 first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale东dōng1st tone, high and level

房东 in a sentence

  1. 为什么这个月房东还不来收房租？

    Wèishénme zhè ge yuè fángdōng hái bù lái shōu fángzū?

    Why hasn’t the landlord come to collect rent this month?

    Sentence #338410 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我的六十岁的房东为什么买了一个蹦床？

    Wǒ de liùshí suì de fángdōng wèishénme mǎi le yí ge bèngchuáng?

    Why did my sixty-year-old landlord buy a trampoline?

    Sentence #487191 from Tatoeba

How 房东 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 东 (dōng) with each of its parts in a different colour
东dōngeast
  • 七seven · qī
  • 小small · xiǎo

Memory aidSimplified from 東, drawn from a sack tied at both ends. It was borrowed for “east”.

How to write 房东

房 8 strokes · 东 5 strokes

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

Words related to 房东

Words with 房

房间fángjiān · room房子fángzi · house厨房chúfáng · kitchen

Words with 东

东西dōngxi · thing东dōng · East东方dōngfāng · the East东北dōngběi · northeast东南dōngnán · southeast股东gǔdōng · shareholder东道主dōngdàozhǔ · host东张西望dōngzhāngxīwàng · to look around in all directions

More words: People, Body & Health

身高shēngāo · (a person’s) height出院chūyuàn · to leave hospital爱情àiqíng · romance儿童értóng · child父亲fùqīn · father母亲mǔqīn · mother年龄niánlíng · (a person’s) age亲戚qīnqi · a relative (i.e. family relation)

FAQs

房东 (fángdōng) means “landlord”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it fángdōng: fáng with a 2nd tone, then dōng with a 1st 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, 房东 is written 房東. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type fangdong with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 房东 from the suggestions. Typing fangdong into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
房东 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.