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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.
间jiānbetween
门gate · mén
日sun · rì
Memory aidSunlight 日 coming through a gap in the gate 门: a gap, the space between, a room.
How to write 房间
房 8 strokes · 间 7 strokes
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Stroke order chart for 房间 (fángjiān). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.
房间 (fángjiān) means “room”. It is an HSK 2 word, so it is one of the words learners meet early.
Say it fángjiān: fáng with a 2nd tone, then jiān 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, 房间 is written 房間. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 间 (jiān). For example, one room is 一间房间 (yì jiān fángjiān).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type fangjian with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 房间 from the suggestions. Typing fangjian into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
房间 is an HSK 2 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.
房fáng2nd tone, rising
间jiān1st tone, high and level
