室
부수: 宀
획수: 9획
室 has the meanings room and building.
室 = 宀 + 至
X = semantic + semantic/phonetic
• 宀 depicts the roof of a building and means ‘building’.
• 至 originally depicted an arrow hitting a target. Some scholars take this to mean ‘arrive at a place’ and thus ‘place to shelter’.
Historically, 室(실) was the room in the middle of the house. The room at the front opening was the 堂(당), and the two rooms on either side of the 室(실) were the 房(방)s.
Evolution:
室 = central room ➔ room ➔ building
Mnemonic
Take 至 as meaning ‘arrive at a place’. Imagine how you cannot fully relax until you get 至 home 宀 to your 거室 and put your feet up.
Vocab
| 室內 | 실내 | indoors; interior of a room |
| 敎室 | 교실 | classroom |
| 寢室 | 침실 | bedroom |
| 居室 | 거실 | living room |
| 船室 | 선실 | cabin (ship) |
| 暗室 | 암실 | darkroom |
| 密室 | 밀실 | secret room |
| 心室 | 심실 | ventricle (heart) |
| 化粧室 | 화장실 | bathroom; toilet |
| 事務室 | 사무실 | office; workplace |
| 美容室 | 미용실 | beauty salon; hairdresser’s |
| 待合室 | 대합실 | waiting room |
| 硏究室 | 연구실 | laboratory |
| 室外 | 실외 | outdoors |
| 溫室 | 온실 | greenhouse |
| 王室 | 왕실 | Royal family |
Other resources
Image searches
Google
Bing
Yahoo Japan
Baidu (click 图片)
Sogou
Pinterest
Flickr
CJKV
CJKV Dict
Wikitionary
Unihan Database
Korean
Chinese
Written Chinese
Arch Chinese
ZDic
CC-Canto
Chinese Text Project
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (etymology)
Chinese Boost
Japanese
Takoboto
Jisho
JLearn.net
Sakura
The Kanji Map
Sentence Search
Immersion Kit
Vietnamese
Bibliography
Affiliate links help support uK.
— Daum 사전, [s.v. 室].
— Grant, B.K. (1982). A Guide To Korean Characters: Reading and Writing Hangul and Hanja, [s.v. 600]. Seoul: Hollym.
— Outlier Dictionary of Chinese Characters, [s.v. 室, 宀, 至].
— Seely, C., Henshall, K.G., & Fan, J. (2016). The Complete Guide to Japanese Kanji: Remembering and Understanding the 2,136 Standard Japanese Characters, [s.v. 152]. Singapore: Tuttle Publishing.