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HSK
house / building (single- or two-story) / apartment / room / CL: 棟|栋, , , , 間|间
HSK 1
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  *所* | 所* | *所
actually / place / classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc / that which / particle introducing a relative clause or passive / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
to move house; to relocate / to remove (sth)
HSK 3
house / room / CL: 間|间
HSK 3
wine shop / pub (public house) / hotel / restaurant / (Tw) hostess club
HSK 2
rent for a room or house
HSK 3
house / building / CL: ,
HSK 3
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  *樓* | 樓* | *樓
house with more than 1 story / storied building / floor / CL: 層|层, , 棟|栋
HSK 1
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  *屋* | 屋* | *屋
(bound form) house / (bound form) room
HSK 5
(informal) grandma (paternal grandmother) / (respectful) mistress of the house / CL: / (coll.) boobies / breasts
HSK 1
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  *門* | 門* | *門
gate / door / CL: / gateway / doorway / CL: 個|个 / opening / valve / switch / way to do something / knack / family / house / (religious) sect / school (of thought) / class / category / phylum or division (taxonomy) / classifier for large guns / classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology / (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)
HSK 1
house price / cost of housing
HSK 6
treasure-house / treasury / treasure-trove (often fig., book of treasured wisdom)
HSK 7-9
housewife / woman of senior authority in a household / the lady of the house / hostess
HSK 7-9
publishing house
HSK 7-9
courtyard house with a fully enclosed courtyard (type of Chinese residence)
HSK 7-9
haunted house
auctioneer / auction house
lateral court (in a Chinese house)
house pet
HSK 6
guests filled all the seats (idiom); a house full of distinguished visitors
to play house (Tw)
master of the house; head of the family
house centipede
teashop with performance by 評書|评书 story tellers / (attached to name of publishing houses) / (in former times) private school / library (of classic texts)
to check in (at a hotel etc); to move into (a house)
to go from house to house
HSK 7-9
master (of the house) / main character in a novel etc / hero or heroine
to give or receive urgent medical treatment / emergency treatment (at a hospital emergency department or from a doctor on a house call)
HSK 7-9
household / dwelling / family / sb else's house / household business / house of woman's husband-to-be / CL: 戶|户,
crown prince; heir of a noble house
lower chamber (of legislative body) / lower house / the House of Commons
lower house (of parliament)
decrepit house
(bird species of China) Nepal house martin (Delichon nipalense)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *棟* | 棟* | *棟
classifier for houses or buildings / ridgepole (old)
HSK 7-9
landlord / house owner
house / building
to buy a house
real estate / the property market (e.g. houses)
second-hand house / house acquired indirectly through a middle-man
I / me / we / my home / our house
gecko; house lizard
lit. love the house and its crow (idiom); involvement with sb and everyone connected / Love me, love my dog.
tavern / guest house / inn / hotel
to search a house and confiscate possessions
private house
houses / homes
steady as Mt Tai / as safe as houses
coffee house / café / CL:
to enter sb's house / to obtain a residence permit
Upper Chamber / Upper House / Senate
member of the House of Representatives
to rent / to charter / to rent land or a house for subletting / fixed rent for farmland
(idiom) (of houses etc) sumptuous
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  *房* | 房* | *房
house / room / CL: 間|间 / branch of an extended family / classifier for family members (or concubines)
everyone present applauds / universal acclaim / a standing ovation / to bring the house down
upper house / senate / senior statesmen's assembly
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  *廉* | 廉* | *廉
incorruptible / honest / inexpensive / to investigate (old) / side wall of a traditional Chinese house (old)
house (music genre) (loanword)
to be in charge in one's own house (idiom) / to be the master of one's own affairs
congratulations on house-moving or promotion (idiom); Best wishes for your new home!
brand new house / bridal chamber
HSK 7-9
bungalow / single-story house
Ambush from Ten Sides (pipa solo piece) / House of Flying Daggers (2004 movie by Zhang Yimou 張藝謀|张艺谋)
supplied with water (of a house)
house / house with a courtyard
to set out / to display / to furnish (a room or house)
home / residence / house
wing (of a traditional house) / side room
row house / townhouse / terrace house
tile-roofed house
(of the groom's family) to send a bridal sedan chair 花轎|花轿 to fetch the bride / to send a party to escort the bride to the groom's house
the Blue House (or Cheong Wa Dae), formerly the residence of the president of South Korea in Seoul (1948–2022), now a public park
house mouse
to break into a house for robbery (idiom)
to buy a house on a mortgage / house mortgage
small multi-story building; modest house with two or more floors
to move (house) / to relocate / removal
to provide a place to stay / to house / to accommodate / (of an institution etc) to take in / to accept
to move (house) / to relocate / removals
treasure house of knowledge
famous family / prestigious house
house / residence
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  *广* | 广* | *广
"house on a cliff" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 53), occurring in , , etc
to look after the house / (of skill, ability) special / outstanding
to be unable to get into (a house, an organization, a field of study, a particular type of career etc)
lit. a banquet with no empty seats / full house / capacity crowd / standing room only
lit. to show the wolf into the house (idiom) / fig. to introduce a potential source of trouble
lit. to invite the devil to one's house (idiom) / fig. to introduce a potential source of trouble
Western-style house
forbidding entrance to a large, quiet house
art film / art house film / CL:
inner courtyard (in a courtyard house)
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  *眾* | 眾* | *眾
abbr. for 眾議院|众议院, House of Representatives
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  *參* | 參* | *參
to take part in / to participate / to join / to attend / to counsel / unequal / varied / irregular / uneven / not uniform / abbr. for 參議院|参议院 Senate, Upper House
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  *居* | 居* | *居
to reside / to be (in a certain position) / to store up / to be at a standstill / residence / house / restaurant / classifier for bedrooms
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  *舍* | 舍* | *舍
(bound form) residence; house / (bound form) my (in speaking of relatives younger than oneself, as in 舍妹) / (archaic) unit of distance equal to 30 li
Encyclopedia of China Publishing House
lodging house

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