房
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Translingual
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| Japanese | 房 |
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| Simplified | 房 |
| Traditional | 房 |
Han character
房 (Kangxi radical 63, 戶+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹尸卜竹尸 (HSYHS) or 戈尸卜竹尸 (ISYHS), four-corner 30227, composition ⿸戶方 or ⿸户方 or ⿸戸方)
References
- KangXi: page 415, character 15
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11714
- Dae Jaweon: page 759, character 16
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2260, character 4
- Unihan data for U+623F
Chinese
| trad. | 房 | |
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| simp. # | 房 | |
Glyph origin
| Old Chinese | |
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| 縍 | *paːŋ |
| 榜 | *paːŋʔ, *praːŋs, *braːŋ |
| 蒡 | *paːŋʔ, *braːŋ |
| 牓 | *paːŋʔ |
| 螃 | *paːŋʔ, *paːŋs, *baːŋ |
| 搒 | *paːŋs, *braːŋ |
| 舫 | *paːŋs, *paŋs |
| 謗 | *paːŋs |
| 雱 | *pʰaːŋ |
| 磅 | *pʰaːŋ, *pʰraːŋ |
| 霶 | *pʰaːŋ |
| 滂 | *pʰaːŋ |
| 鎊 | *pʰaːŋ |
| 髈 | *pʰaːŋʔ, *baːŋ |
| 彷 | *baːŋ, *pʰaŋʔ |
| 趽 | *baːŋ, *paŋ, *paŋs |
| 房 | *baːŋ, *baŋ |
| 篣 | *baːŋ, *braːŋ |
| 騯 | *baːŋ, *praːŋ, *braːŋ |
| 傍 | *baːŋ, *baːŋs |
| 膀 | *baːŋ |
| 旁 | *baːŋ |
| 徬 | *baːŋs |
| 閍 | *praːŋ |
| 祊 | *praːŋ |
| 嗙 | *praːŋ |
| 方 | *paŋ, *baŋ |
| 汸 | *paŋ |
| 坊 | *paŋ, *baŋ |
| 邡 | *paŋ, *pʰaŋs |
| 枋 | *paŋ |
| 鈁 | *paŋ |
| 蚄 | *paŋ |
| 肪 | *paŋ, *baŋ |
| 鴋 | *paŋ, *baŋ |
| 牥 | *paŋ |
| 昉 | *paŋʔ |
| 瓬 | *paŋʔ |
| 放 | *paŋʔ, *paŋs |
| 倣 | *paŋʔ |
| 芳 | *pʰaŋ |
| 淓 | *pʰaŋ |
| 妨 | *pʰaŋ, *pʰaŋs |
| 紡 | *pʰaŋʔ |
| 仿 | *pʰaŋʔ |
| 髣 | *pʰaŋʔ |
| 鶭 | *pʰaŋʔ |
| 訪 | *pʰaŋs |
| 防 | *baŋ, *baŋs |
| 魴 | *baŋ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *baːŋ, *baŋ) : semantic 戶 (“door”) + phonetic 方 (OC *paŋ, *baŋ).
Also could be an ideogrammic compound (會意) : 戶 (“door”) + 方 (homonym of 旁 (OC *baːŋ, “side”)), as it originally referred to one of the two rooms beside the central room (side room).
Etymology 1
Etymology not certain. Probably Sino-Tibetan; compare Tibetan བང་བ (bang ba, “storeroom; storehouse”), Burmese ဝင်း (wang:, “enclosure”) (Bodman, 1980). Alternatively, compare Tibetan བྲང (brang, “house”) (as in ཕོ་བྲང (pho brang, “palace”) and བྲང་ཁང (brang khang, “dwelling house”)) (Schuessler, 2007).
Pronunciation
Definitions
房
- house
- room (Classifier: 間/间 m c)
- house-like structure
- 心房 ― xīnfáng ― heart (as a house of emotions); cardiac atrium
- branch of a family
- 二房 ― èrfáng ― second son and his family
- wife; concubine
- sexual activity
- 行房 ― xíngfáng ― to go to bed with
- Classifier for relatives.
- Classifier for wives, concubines or daughters-in-law.
- Classifier for fruits: bunch
- (astronomy) the Room (a Chinese constellation, 4th of the Twenty-Eight Mansions and part of the Azure Dragon)
- a surname. Fang
- 房玄齡/房玄龄 ― Fáng Xuánlíng ― Fang Xuanling (Tang dynasty politician)
- (~縣) Fang County (a county of Shiyan, Hubei, China)
- (obsolete) side room
Synonyms
Compounds
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Descendants
Others:
Pronunciation
References
- “房”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database), 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
Japanese
| Shinjitai | 房 | |
| Kyūjitai [1][2] |
房󠄁 房+ 󠄁?(Adobe-Japan1) |
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| 房󠄃 房+ 󠄃?(Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho) | ||
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Kanji
Readings
From Middle Chinese 房 (MC bʉɐŋ); compare Mandarin 房 (fáng):
- Go-on: ぼう (bō, Jōyō)←ばう (bau, historical)
- Kan-on: ほう (hō)←はう (fau, historical)
From Middle Chinese 房 (MC bɑŋ); compare Mandarin 房 (páng):
- Go-on: ぼう (bō, Jōyō)←ばう (bau, historical)
- Kan-on: ほう (hō)←はう (fau, historical)
From native Japanese roots:
Etymology
| Kanji in this term |
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| 房 |
| ふさ Grade: S |
| kun’yomi |
| For pronunciation and definitions of 房 – see the following entry. | ||
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| (This term, 房, is an alternative spelling of the above term.) |
References
- “房”, in 漢字ぺディア (Kanjipedia) (in Japanese), 日本漢字能力検定協会, 2015—2023
- 1914, 漢和大辭書 (Kanwa Dai Jisho, “The Great Kanji-Japanese Dictionary”) (in Japanese), page 920 (paper), page 510 (digital), Tōkyō: 興文社 (Kōbunsha)
