房
부수: 戶
획수: 8획
房 has the meanings ‘room’, ‘house’ and ‘shop’.
房 = 戶 + 方
X = semantic + semantic/phonetic
• 戶 depicts a door (the left side of 門) and represents the meaning ‘side room’.
• 方 depicts a knife and represents the meaning ‘to cut apart’.
房 refers to rooms ‘divided off’ from the main room.
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:
房 = ’side room’ ➔ ’room’ ➔ ’house’
Mnemonic
Imagine a basketball player hitting their head on the door frame 戶 as they walk into 方 a room 房.
Vocab
| 房門 | 방문 | door of a room |
| 廚房 | 주방 | kitchen |
| 舍廊房 | 사랑방 | guest room |
| 地下房 | 지하방 | basement |
| 冷房 | 냉방 | cool room; air-conditioning |
| 暖房/煖房 | 난방 | heated room; heating |
| 茶房 | 다방 | tearoom; coffee shop |
| 監房 | 감방 | prison; prison cell |
| 冊房 | 책방 | bookstore |
| 乳房 | 유방 | breasts |
| 노래房 | 노래방 | singing room |
| 건넌房 | 건넌방 | the room opposite |
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Bibliography
Affiliate links help support uK.
— Grant, B.K. (1982). A Guide To Korean Characters: Reading and Writing Hangul and Hanja, [s.v. 484]. Seoul: Hollym.
— Henshall, K.G. (1998). A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters, [s.v. 1809]. Singapore: Tuttle Publishing.
— Outlier Dictionary of Chinese Characters, [s.v. 房, 戶, 方].
— 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. 1971]. Singapore: Tuttle Publishing.