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房

tassel
Stroke count: 8

Readings

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JLPT level: N1JōyōGrade 8

Meanings

  1. tasselRtK
  2. bunch
    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
  3. fringe
  4. house
  5. lock (hair)
    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。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。Grapes grow in bunches.tatoeba
  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

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Components
How it's built
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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

暖房だんぼう
(indoor) heating
冷房れいぼう
air conditioning; air cooling
官房かんぼう
government secretariat
工房こうぼう
workshop; studio; atelier
書房しょぼう
study; library; bookstore; bookshop; publishing company
女房にょうぼう
wife (esp. one's own wife); court lady; female court attache; woman who served at the imperial palace; woman (esp. as a love interest)
厨房ちゅうぼう
kitchen; galley; (Internet) troll
独房どくぼう
single-person cell; isolation cell; solitary cell; solitary confinement cell
乳房ちぶさ
breast; udder
文房具ぶんぼうぐ
stationery
冷暖房れいだんぼう
air conditioning and heating
官房長官かんぼうちょうかん
Chief Cabinet Secretary (Japan); Chief of Staff (to the President, Prime Minister, etc.); Cabinet Secretary; Executive Secretary
内閣官房ないかくかんぼう
Cabinet Secretariat
安房あわ
Awa (former province, south Chiba)
監房かんぼう
(prison) cell
廚房ちゅうぼう
kitchen
檻房かんぼう
(prison) cell
煖房だんぼう
(indoor) heating
閨房けいぼう
marital bedroom
官房長かんぼうちょう
Chief Cabinet Secretary
ちゅう房ちゅうぼう
kitchen
安房船貝あわぶねがい
Bostrycapulus gravispinosus (species of spiny slipper snail)
文房四寶ぶんぼうしほう
the four tools of writing (brush, ink, inkstone and paper)
繖房花序さんぼうかじょ
corymbose inflorescence

Additional Examples

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

Stroke Order

8 strokes

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