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house / building (single- or two-story) / apartment / room / CL: 棟|栋, , , , 間|间
HSK 1
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  *樓* | 樓* | *樓
house with more than 1 story / storied building / floor / CL: 層|层, , 棟|栋
HSK 1
(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
wine shop / pub (public house) / hotel / restaurant / (Tw) hostess club
HSK 2
house / building / CL: ,
HSK 3
to move house; to relocate / to remove (sth)
HSK 3
house / room / CL: 間|间
HSK 3
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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
rent for a room or house
HSK 3
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  *屋* | 屋* | *屋
(bound form) house / (bound form) room
HSK 5
house pet
HSK 6
house price / cost of housing
HSK 6
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  *棟* | 棟* | *棟
classifier for houses or buildings / ridgepole (old)
HSK 7-9
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
publishing house
HSK 7-9
treasure-house / treasury / treasure-trove (often fig., book of treasured wisdom)
HSK 7-9
courtyard house with a fully enclosed courtyard (type of Chinese residence)
HSK 7-9
housewife / woman of senior authority in a household / the lady of the house / hostess
HSK 7-9
to go from house to house
HSK 7-9
brand new house / bridal chamber
HSK 7-9
haunted house
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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
house fly
gecko; house lizard
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  *房* | 房* | *房
house / room / CL: 間|间 / branch of an extended family / classifier for family members (or concubines)
cheating neither old nor young (idiom); treating youngsters and old folk equally scrupulously / Our house offers sincere treatment to all and fair trade to old and young alike.
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  *舍* | 舍* | *舍
(bound form) residence; house / (bound form) my (in speaking of relatives younger than oneself) / (archaic) unit of distance equal to 30 li
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  *廉* | 廉* | *廉
incorruptible / honest / inexpensive / to investigate (old) / side wall of a traditional Chinese house (old)
lateral court (in a Chinese house)
tavern / guest house / inn / hotel
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  *眾* | 眾* | *眾
abbr. for 眾議院|众议院, House of Representatives
door plate / house number
young lady of the house / wife of the young master
house / people's homes
bookstore / publishing house
house door / family clan
lit. house made of gold / fig. luxurious residence
supplied with water (of a house)
manor house / villa / (used in hotel names)
to be in charge in one's own house (idiom) / to be the master of one's own affairs
real estate / the property market (e.g. houses)
to provide a place to stay / to house / to accommodate / (of an institution etc) to take in / to accept
opera house
odd number (on a ticket, house etc)
(Tw) row house / townhouse / terrace house
crown prince; heir of a noble house
famous family / prestigious 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
calabash or bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria) / hoist / generic term for block and tackle (or parts thereof) / muddled / (poker) full house
to set out / to display / to furnish (a room or house)
electrician / electrical engineering / electrical work (in a house)
(of a house or room) to be for rent
to enter sb's house / to obtain a residence permit
son-in-law living at wife's parent's house
gecko; house lizard
White House
(literary) house / building
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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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  *广* | 广* | *广
"house on a cliff" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 53), occurring in , , etc
printing house / print shop
privately-owned house / private rooms / private ownings
to move (house) / to relocate / removals
two chambers (of legislative assembly), e.g. House of Representatives and Senate
sb with whom one is on familiar terms / sb from the same place (same house, same town etc) / one of us
to place under house arrest
to have a full house / to be sold out / no vacancy
guests feel at home (in a hotel, guest house etc) / a home away from home
(idiom) (of houses etc) sumptuous
girl from a wealthy family / unmarried daughter of a noble house
song cycle in Chinese opera / (fig.) a series of tricks / polite remarks / number of (things that are counted in , like houses)
(idiom) (of houses, scenery etc) magnificent
a reading group / press (i.e. publishing house)
master (of the house) / main character in a novel etc / hero or heroine
to search a house and confiscate possessions
to play house (Tw)
to pick flowers / to enter houses at night in order to rape women
Tripitaka Koreana, Buddhist scriptures carved on 81,340 wooden tablets and housed in the Haein Temple 海印寺 in South Gyeongsang province of South Korea
congratulations on house-moving or promotion (idiom); Best wishes for your new home!
(respectful for) one's grandfather / sb's father / older people / the head of the house (used by servants) / a district magistrate
to visit a patient at home (of a doctor) / house call
a golden house to keep one's mistress (idiom); a magnificent house built for a beloved woman
lower house of bicameral assembly / House of Representatives (USA) / Chamber of Deputies
to rent / to charter / to rent land or a house for subletting / fixed rent for farmland
lit. a banquet with no empty seats / full house / capacity crowd / standing room only
to move (sth) around / to move house
noble house
lit. fill the door / fill the house (at a wedding or auspicious occasion)
unit for the width of a room, equal to the standard width of a room in an old-style house – about 10 chi / width of a room / (architecture) bay
steady as Mt Tai / as safe as houses
to rebuild (house or road) / to overhaul
to be unable to get into (a house, an organization, a field of study, a particular type of career etc)
guests filled all the seats (idiom); a house full of distinguished visitors
fig. people who cannot afford to buy their own house
everyone present applauds / universal acclaim / a standing ovation / to bring the house down
(archaic) gambling house
member of the House of Representatives
to break into a house when nobody is home
lower chamber (of legislative body) / lower house / the House of Commons
lit. in books are sumptuous houses and graceful ladies (proverb) / fig. be diligent in your studies, success and glory will follow

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