HSK 3.0 · LEVEL 1
房子
House, building, or apartment
Free Chinese vocabulary flashcard · HSK 1
Why does 房子 look like this?
房 (fáng) consists of the 'door' radical (户 hù) on top and the 'square' phonetic (方 fāng) below. It originally meant a side room. 子 (zi) is a common suffix for nouns. Together, they literally mean 'the place with a door,' which is your house!