HSK 5 · Places

屋子 wūzi “house” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 屋子 means

  1. house
  2. room

Measure word 间 jiān · 一间屋子 yì jiān wūzi

How to say 屋子

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale屋wū1st tone, high and level
  • 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

屋子 in a sentence

  1. 这间屋子的温度是不是有点高了?

    Zhè jiān wūzi de wēndù shì bu shì yǒudiǎn gāo le?

    Isn’t the temperature in this room a bit high?

    Sentence #14042780 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 屋子里有很多人。

    Wūzi lǐ yǒu hěn duō rén.

    There are lots of people in the room.

    Sentence #1216053 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 打扫屋子真的是我最害怕的工作。

    Dǎsǎo wūzi zhēnde shì wǒ zuì hàipà de gōngzuò.

    Cleaning the house is the chore I dread most.

    Sentence #12615483 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 屋子 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 屋 (wū) with each of its parts in a different colour
屋wūhouse
  • 尸corpse · shī
  • 至arrive · zhì
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 屋子

屋 9 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.

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

Words related to 屋子

Words with 子

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FAQs

屋子 (wūzi) means “house” or “room”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it wūzi: wū with a 1st 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. 屋子 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Use 间 (jiān). For example, one house is 一间屋子 (yì jiān wūzi).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type wuzi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 屋子 from the suggestions. Typing wuzi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
屋子 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.