室
Meanings
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- 1.surname Shi
- 1.room
- 2.work unit
- 3.grave
- 4.scabbard
- 5.family or clan
- 6.one of the 28 constellations of Chinese astronomy
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Wiktionary
- 1.room (in a building or house); chamber
- 2.apartment number; flat number
- 3.family; household; clan
- 4.family member; dependent
- 5.wife
- 6.to take a wife
- 7.organ (part of an organism) shaped like a chamber; body cavity; ventricle
- 8.work unit; administrative unit
- 9.court; dynasty
- 10.home; house
- 11.office
- 12.coffin pit; grave
- 13.scabbard; sheath
- 14.Encampment (a Chinese constellation near Pegasus)
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *hliɡ): semantic 宀 (“roof”) + phonetic 至 (OC *tjiɡs). Its original meaning is "house, residence". The arrows also indicates that a residence is a place or spot which somebody stops by, marked by an arrow on the ground, hence the phonetic component also adds part of the meaning. Therefore, the character can also be understood as an ideogrammic compound – "a ⼧ roof over ⾄ this exact spot". According to Shuowen Jiezi, it is indeed so, as the meaning is "至所止 arrive at a specific place, symbolized by the roof. From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *k-li(s). Cognate to Tibetan གཞིས (gzhis) < གལྱི (glyi, “ground, foundation, cause; residence, abode”), ས་གཞི (sa gzhi, “earth (opposite to sky)”), གཞིས (gzhis, “native place”), ཡུལ་གཞིས (yul gzhis, “house, estate, property”), གཞིས་སྒྲིལ་བ (gzhis sgril ba, “to move, to change one's abode”). Also cognate to Proto-Tibeto-Burman *mliy, from which Burmese မြေ (mre, “earth, soil”) is derived.
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Stroke order
Components
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Example sentences
臥室在樓上。
The bedrooms are upstairs.
這是我的臥室。
This is my bedroom.
這是你的臥室嗎？
Is that your bedroom?
她上樓到她的臥室。
She went upstairs to her bedroom.
我們家有三個臥室。
Our house has three bedrooms.
他對室內灰塵過敏。
He is allergic to house dust.
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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