房 fáng
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 户 — door
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
房屋
fángwū
house
Characters in this word
屋 wū
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 尸 — body, corpse
- Made of
- 尸 body, corpse 至 reach, arrive
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 房屋很旧了。 Fáng wū hěn jiù le. The house is very old now.
- 这房屋很大。 Zhè fáng wū hěn dà. This house is big.
- 房屋要打扫。 Fáng wū yào dǎ sǎo. The house needs cleaning.