平 píng
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 广 — broad, vast, wide
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
平房
píngfáng
single-storey house; bungalow
Characters in this word
房 fáng
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 户 — door
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 城中村改造后，许多旧平房被安置楼取代。 Chéngzhōngcūn gǎizào hòu, xǔduō jiù píngfáng bèi ānzhìlóu qǔdài. After the urban-village redevelopment, many old single-storey houses were replaced by resettlement blocks.
- 爷爷住在一个带小院子的平房里。 Yéye zhù zài yí ge dài xiǎo yuànzi de píngfáng lǐ. Grandpa lives in a bungalow with a small courtyard.
- 夏天住平房比较热，冬天又很冷。 Xiàtiān zhù píngfáng bǐjiào rè, dōngtiān yòu hěn lěng. Living in a single-storey house is rather hot in summer and cold in winter.