Chinese Dictionary

Usage of the character 房

house
room
CL:間／间 (jiān)
branch of an extended family
classifier for family members (or concubines)

surname Fang

(slang) KTV; KTV room

Western-style house

compartment (of train, ship etc)
private room at restaurant
rented room for karaoke
hotel room rented by the hour

home loan

housing

suite
apartment
flat

private house

house price
cost of housing

landlord

waiter
steward
porter
teahouse

distantly related
a distant relative

dovecote
enclosure for carrier pigeons

(of a married couple) to have intercourse
(literary) to share the same room
of the same family branch

decrepit house

(old) one's wife

housetop
roof

(of a child bride) to consummate marriage

toilet (rural euphemism)
thatched hut or house

honeycomb; beehive

jail cell
prison cell

"housing devil", real estate developer or realtor accused of manipulating the property market in their favor

to rent a place with sb else to share the costs

ward (of a hospital)
sickroom
CL:間／间 (jiān)

to check out of a hotel room

(Tw) apartment (with shared bathroom and kitchen)
bedsit

to rent an apartment

greenhouse

personal
private
confidential

sexual intercourse
to make love

a building used as a factory; factory (building)
CL:座 (zuò),棟／栋 (dòng)

pharmacy
drugstore

see 鬧洞房／闹洞房 (nàodòngfáng)

remote relatives (with the same family name)

delivery room (in hospital)
labor ward

house
building

gatehouse
lodge
gatekeeper
porter

(neologism c. 2020) (of a celebrity) to have one's reputation tank due to a scandal

finished apartment
ready apartment

second wife (of a widower)

to inspect a room
to do the rounds (medical)

hut
simple dwelling
monk's hut

(ship's) cabin

heating
central heating
greenhouse
hothouse
to pay a house-warming visit

camera oculi
aqueous chamber of the eye

forward delivery apartment
unfinished housing to be paid for in advance by the buyer and then completed within certain time frame

cabin (of an airplane or ship)

rent for a room or house

side room
concubine

bedroom

to build a house

office of punishment
torture chamber (esp. unofficial)

bungalow
single-story house

central building (in a traditional house)
primary wife

eaves

atrial fibrillation (abbr. for 心房顫動／心房颤动 (xīnfángchàndòng))

cooling
air conditioning

secret inner room
bridal room

an accounts office (in former times)
an accountant
a cashier

to take as a concubine

tenant

to eavesdrop outside bridal bedchamber (folk custom)

study (room)
studio
CL:間／间 (jiān)

deed (for a house)
CL:張／张 (zhāng),份 (fèn)

kitchen
CL:間／间 (jiān)

morgue

machine room
engine room
computer room

warehouse
storehouse
inn

workshop
temporary housing for workers
workers' living quarters

door of a room

tile-roofed house

barracks
living quarters

a room in a Buddhist monastery
a temple

to sleep in separate rooms
distribution of social housing

to buy a house

garage
carport
(old) rickshaw room

deficiency of kidney essence due to sexual excess (TCM)

Fangshan, a district of Beijing

jail

to adopt
to give for adoption (usually to a childless relative)

to buy a house on a mortgage
house mortgage

real estate market

Fang county in Shiyan 十堰 ( Shíyàn), Hubei

second branch of an extended family
concubine

room charge

recreational vehicle

box office

house
building (single- or two-story)
apartment
room
CL:棟／栋 (dòng),幢 (zhuàng),座 (zuò),套 (tào),間／间 (jiān)

brand new house
bridal chamber

euphemism for sexual intercourse
to go to bed with sb

charges for a room
house rental

room
CL:間／间 (jiān),個／个 (gè)

to reserve a room

horse stable

guest room
room (in a hotel)

real estate agent (Tw)

temporary housing built with wooden planks or other makeshift materials

farm house

drying room
oven

see 開房間／开房间 (kāifángjiān)

public housing
dormitory, esp. for unmarried people

privately-owned house
private rooms
private ownings

real estate
the property market (e.g. houses)

ovary (botany)

wing (of a traditional house)
side room

breast
udder

heart (as the seat of emotions)
cardiac atrium

Pingfang district of Harbin 哈爾濱／哈尔滨 ( Hā'ěrbīn) in Heilongjiang

a slave to one's mortgage

room

house
building
CL:所 (suǒ),套 (tào)

to speculate in real estate

sugar mill

lady's chamber
boudoir
harem

a building of two or more stories
CL:棟／栋 (dòng),幢 (zhuàng),座 (zuò)

bedroom
a sleeping compartment (on a train)

real estate agent (old)

storeroom
warehouse

landlord
house owner

reception room for officials (in former times)

see 正房 (zhèngfáng)

room card (in a hotel)

see 戶型／户型 (hùxíng)

low-rent housing

jiànshēnfáng

gym
gymnasium

cūnzhèngfáng

"village-certificated house", residence supposedly only transferable to other village residents but often sold on the open market

yángguāngfáng

sunroom

kōngfángjiān

vacant room

landlady

imperial kitchen

Fangshan, a district of Beijing

secret purse
secret stash of money

second-hand house
house acquired indirectly through a middle-man

to be in prison

beehive

prefabricated building
prefab

Wangfangdian, county-level city in Dalian 大連／大连 ( Dàlián), Liaoning

Epang Palace, palace complex in western Xi'an built by Qin Shihuang 秦始皇 ( Qín Shǐhuáng)
also pr. ( Efáng Gōng)

public housing

Fáng Xuánlíng

Fang Xuanling (579-648), Tang dynasty historian, compiler of History of Jin dynasty 晉書／晋书 ( Jìnshū)

mortuary

to rent a room in a hotel
(of two people who are not married to each other) to rent a room for sex

larder
pantry

dàchuángfáng

hotel room with one double (or queen or king) bed

qiánfángjiǎo

anterior chamber (the front chamber of the eye)

(old) police station in a foreign concession 租界 (zūjiè)

real estate agent (old)

hopscotch
to play hopscotch

office (room or building)

luggage office

the store front
the part of a house facing the street serving as a store

shuāngchuángfáng

twin room

lěngnuǎnfáng

cooling and heating
air conditioning and central heating

gòngjiànfáng

co-op owned house

fángzhōngfáng

room constructed within an existing room
self-contained living area within a house or apartment

see 鬧洞房／闹洞房 (nàodòngfáng)

bakery
CL:家 (jiā)

shǒukōngfáng

to stay home alone (of married woman)

aqueous humor

zhōngdiǎnfáng

hotel room rented at an hourly rate

single supplement (for a hotel room)

real estate

fángchǎnzhèng

title deeds
certificate of property ownership

sublandlord
tenant who sublets

store
front room of house serving as shop

disturbing the privacy of bridal room (Chinese custom where guests banter with and play pranks on the newlyweds)

Freddie Mac, US mortgage company
formerly Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

apartment

Pingfang district of Harbin 哈爾濱／哈尔滨 ( Hā'ěrbīn) in Heilongjiang

laundry room

shuāngrénfáng

double room

dòngfánghuāzhú

bridal room and ornamented candles
wedding festivities (idiom)

chǒngshànzhuānfáng

an especially favored concubine (idiom)

fángwūzhōngjiè

housing agent
real estate agent

huódòngfángwū

prefabricated building
prefab
mobile home
caravan
trailer

huànfánglüyóu

house-swap vacation

guānfángzhǎngguān

chief cabinet secretary (Japan)

dúshǒukōngfáng

(of a married woman) to stay home alone

yīfángyītīng

one bedroom and one living room

fángchǎnzhōngjiè

real estate agent

xìnxījiǎnfáng

(Internet) echo chamber
filter bubble

ānníngbìngfáng

hospice

wénfángsìbǎo

Four Treasures of the Study, namely 筆／笔 (bǐ), 墨 (mò), 紙／纸 (zhǐ) and 硯／砚 (yàn)
the essentials of calligraphy and scholarship (idiom)

Wǎfángdiànshì

Wangfangdian, county-level city in Dalian 大連／大连 ( Dàlián), Liaoning

room service

xīnfángchàndòng

atrial fibrillation

jiāhùbìngfáng

(Tw) intensive care unit (ICU)

rǔfángshèyǐng

mammography

zhàngfángxiānsheng

bookkeeper (old)

cuānfángyuèjǐ

lit. to leap the house and cross the roofridge (idiom); dashing over rooftops (of robbers and pursuing knight-errant 俠客／侠客 in fiction)

chuàngxiàgāopiàofáng

创下高票房

[創下高票房]

to set a box office record

dòngfánghuāzhúyè

洞房花烛夜

[洞房花燭夜]

wedding night

Zhùfánghé Chéngxiāng Jiànshèbù

住房和城乡建设部

[住房和城鄉建設部]

Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of the PRC (MOHURD)
abbr. to 住建部 ( Zhù Jiànbù)

lābùchūshǐláiyuànmáofáng

拉不出屎来怨茅房

[拉不出屎來怨茅房]

lit. to blame the toilet because one is having difficulty completing a bowel movement (idiom)
fig. to blame others for problems caused by one's own shortcomings

cìjífángwūxìndàiwēijī

次级房屋信贷危机

[次級房屋信貸危機]

subprime mortgage crisis

sāntiānbùdǎ,shàngfángjiēwǎ

三天不打，上房揭瓦

[三天不打，上房揭瓦]

three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof to rip the tiles (idiom)
spare the rod, spoil the child