House in Chinese
house · HSK 3
房子
- 房 house
- 子 son
Counted with 间: 一间房子
他们在城里买了一套房子。 They bought a house in the city.
Other ways to say house
More words with 房 or 子
How do you say house in Chinese?
House in Chinese is 房子 (fáng zi). You can also say 屋子 (wū zi), 房屋 (fáng wū), 住宅 (zhù zhái).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.