房 fáng
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 户 — door
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
房租
fángzū
rent
Characters in this word
租 zū
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 禾 — cereal, grain, rice
- Made of
- 禾 cereal, grain, rice 且 moreover, also (post-subject)
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 房租太贵了。 Fáng zū tài guì le. The rent is too expensive.
- 我付房租了。 Wǒ fù fáng zū le. I paid the rent.
- 房租又涨了。 Fáng zū yòu zhǎng le. The rent went up again.