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卧室 wòshì “bedroom” in Chinese

Traditional 臥室

What 卧室 means

  1. bedroom

Measure word 间 jiān · 一间卧室 yì jiān wòshì

How to say 卧室

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale卧wò4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale室shì4th tone, falling

卧室 in a sentence

  1. 我们听到卧室里有声音。

    Wǒmen tīngdào wòshì lǐ yǒu shēngyīn.

    We heard a noise in the bedroom.

    Sentence #835593 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 最大的卧室朝南。

    Zuì dà de wòshì cháo nán.

    The biggest bedroom faces south.

    Sentence #1454453 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 你卧室里有电视吗？

    Nǐ wòshì lǐ yǒu diànshì ma?

    Is there a TV in your bedroom?

    Sentence #2254369 from Tatoeba

How 卧室 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 卧 (wò) with each of its parts in a different colour
卧wòto lie
  • 臣minister · chén
  • 卜divination · bǔ
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 卧室

卧 8 strokes · 室 9 strokes

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

Words related to 卧室

Words with 室

教室jiàoshì · classroom室shì · room办公室bàngōngshì · office

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FAQs

卧室 (wòshì) means “bedroom”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it wòshì: wò with a 4th tone, then shì with a 4th 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, 卧室 is written 臥室. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 间 (jiān). For example, one bedroom is 一间卧室 (yì jiān wòshì).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type woshi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 卧室 from the suggestions. Typing woshi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
卧室 is an HSK 5 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.