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房

tassel
Stroke count: 8

Readings

On readingボウ
Kun readingふさ

Meanings

  1. tasselRtK
  2. bunch
  3. fringe
  4. house
  5. lock (hair)
  6. room
  7. segment (orange)
  8. tuft
  1. tuft (of hair, threads, etc.)
  2. bunch (of grapes, bananas, etc.)
  3. cluster (of flowers)

Popular Usage

暖房冷房

Radicals and components

Radical戸door
Components
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Mnemonic (RtK)

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door (戸) · one (一) · ceiling (冖) · flag (方) · compass · direction (方)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1159

Compound words

私は市場でリンゴを3個にブドウを二房、デザート用に買った。ふさ
I bought three apples and two bunches of grapes for dessert at the market.tatoeba
ブドウは房になってできる。ふさ
Grapes grow in bunches.tatoeba
彼は独房に入れられた。
He was put in a cell.tatoeba
彼は懲役十年で、女房には三年の刑が下った。
He was given ten years and his wife three.tatoeba
彼は女房の尻に敷かれている。
He is a hen-pecked husband.tatoeba
彼は学校の売店で文房具を買った。
He bought some stationery at the school store.tatoeba

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

床暖房はガスをお勧めします
ゆかだんぼうはがすをおすすめしますGas floor heating is recommended.
メロスには父も、母も無い。女房も無い。十六の、内気な妹と二人暮しだ。
めろすにはちちも、ははもない。にょうぼうもない。じゅうろくの、うちきないもうととににんくらしだ。Melos has no father, no mother, no wife. He lives with just his shy sixteen-year-old sister.
冷房では、冷え過ぎが、問題になる。
れいぼうでは、ひえすぎが、もんだいになる。With air conditioning, overcooling becomes a problem.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

8 strokes

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 房

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