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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
house / building (single- or two-story) / apartment / room / CL: 棟|栋, , , , 間|间
HSK 1
wine shop / pub (public house) / hotel / restaurant / (Tw) hostess club
HSK 2
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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
house / building / CL: ,
HSK 3
to move house; to relocate / to remove (sth)
HSK 3
rent for a room or house
HSK 3
house / room / CL: 間|间
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
publishing house
HSK 7-9
courtyard house with a fully enclosed courtyard (type of Chinese residence)
HSK 7-9
brand new house / bridal chamber
HSK 7-9
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
to go from house to house
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
registered occupants of a house
to place under house arrest
electric (apparatus) / electrified / having electricity supply (of a house)
ancestral house
inauspicious abode / haunted house
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.
young lady of the house / wife of the young master
lateral court (in a Chinese house)
upper house / senate / senior statesmen's assembly
haunted house
proceeding at a tremendous pace / getting on like a house on fire
small multi-story building; modest house with two or more floors
customs house (in ancient times)
woodcutter's cottage (idiom); poor person's hovel / fig. my humble house
house door / family clan
to buy a house on a mortgage / house mortgage
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
toilet (rural euphemism) / thatched hut or house
(bird species of China) house sparrow (Passer domesticus)
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  *房* | 房* | *房
house / room / CL: 間|间 / branch of an extended family / classifier for family members (or concubines)
(coll.) (neologism c. 2017, a play on 伏地魔) woman who devotes herself to supporting her little brother (assisting him with his studies, giving money to help him buy a house etc)
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), Norwegian dramatist, author of Doll's House 玩偶之家
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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
(Tw) row house / townhouse / terrace house
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  *眾* | 眾* | *眾
abbr. for 眾議院|众议院, House of Representatives
central building (in a traditional house) / primary wife
door plate / house number
bookstore / publishing house
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
Ambush from Ten Sides (pipa solo piece) / House of Flying Daggers (2004 movie by Zhang Yimou 張藝謀|张艺谋)
tile-roofed house
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
heating / central heating / greenhouse / hothouse / to pay a house-warming visit
crown prince; heir of a noble house
famous family / prestigious house
a screen wall across the gate of a house (for privacy)
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)
(slang) low-level drug dealer / (slang) (of a pet) to wreck the house (scattering trash, chewing on furniture etc)
electrician / electrical engineering / electrical work (in a house)
(of a house or room) to be for rent
lit. broken tiles, cold hearth; fig. a broken-down house / poor and shabby dwelling
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
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 have a full house / to be sold out / no vacancy
(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
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

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