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house / building (single- or two-story) / apartment / room / CL: 棟|栋, , , , 間|间
HSK 1
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  *所* | 所* | *所
actually / place / classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc / that which / particle introducing a relative clause or passive / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
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  *楼* | 楼* | *楼
house with more than 1 story / storied building / floor / CL: 層|层, , 棟|栋
HSK 1
to move house; to relocate / to remove (sth)
HSK 3
house / room / CL: 間|间
HSK 3
wine shop / pub (public house) / hotel / restaurant / (Tw) hostess club
HSK 2
rent for a room or house
HSK 3
house / building / CL: ,
HSK 3
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  *屋* | 屋* | *屋
(bound form) house / (bound form) room
HSK 5
(informal) grandma (paternal grandmother) / (respectful) mistress of the house / CL: / (coll.) boobies / breasts
HSK 1
house pet
HSK 6
house price / cost of housing
HSK 6
housewife / woman of senior authority in a household / the lady of the house / hostess
HSK 7-9
undecorated residential unit; house or apartment sold without interior finishing
publishing house
HSK 7-9
courtyard house with a fully enclosed courtyard (type of Chinese residence)
HSK 7-9
treasure-house / treasury / treasure-trove (often fig., book of treasured wisdom)
HSK 7-9
haunted house
lateral court (in a Chinese house)
tree house
to play house (Tw)
master of the house; head of the family
house centipede
house call fee / callout fee
(of a house or room) distance from the entrance to the rear; depth
to check in (at a hotel etc); to move into (a house)
to purchase (sth expensive, e.g. a house); to acquire (a company, a copyright etc)
master (of the house) / main character in a novel etc / hero or heroine
to be in charge in one's own house (idiom) / to be the master of one's own affairs
lower house of bicameral assembly / House of Representatives (USA) / Chamber of Deputies
teashop with performance by 評書|评书 story tellers / (attached to name of publishing houses) / (in former times) private school / library (of classic texts)
household / dwelling / family / sb else's house / household business / house of woman's husband-to-be / CL: 戶|户,
to give or receive urgent medical treatment / emergency treatment (at a hospital emergency department or from a doctor on a house call)
HSK 7-9
lower chamber (of legislative body) / lower house / the House of Commons
crown prince; heir of a noble house
steady as Mt Tai / as safe as houses
to enter sb's house / to obtain a residence permit
guests filled all the seats (idiom); a house full of distinguished visitors
lower house (of parliament)
the store front / the part of a house facing the street serving as a store
electrician / electrical engineering / electrical work (in a house)
real estate / the property market (e.g. houses)
decrepit house
(bird species of China) Nepal house martin (Delichon nipalense)
Upper Chamber / Upper House / Senate
landlord / house owner
house / building
domestic cat; house cat
cheating neither old nor young (idiom); treating youngsters and old folk equally scrupulously / Our house offers sincere treatment to all and fair trade to old and young alike.
burglary / house-breaking
second-hand house / house acquired indirectly through a middle-man
I / me / we / my home / our house
gecko; house lizard
congratulations on house-moving or promotion (idiom); Best wishes for your new home!
to search a house and confiscate possessions
son of the boss / young master of the house / your son (honorific)
private house
special blend; house blend
(idiom) (of houses, scenery etc) magnificent
to buy a house
farm house
houses / homes
member of the House of Representatives
ten thousand houses or households
coffee house / café / CL:
manor house / villa / (used in hotel names)
(Tw) to provide a service at the customer's home; to make a house call
to rent / to charter / to rent land or a house for subletting / fixed rent for farmland
a reading group / press (i.e. publishing house)
Sotheby's auction house
inauspicious abode / haunted house
lit. to leap the house and cross the roofridge (idiom); dashing over rooftops (of robbers and pursuing knight-errant 俠客|侠客 in fiction)
to have a full house / to be sold out / no vacancy
house door / family clan
lit. love the house and its crow (idiom); involvement with sb and everyone connected / Love me, love my dog.
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  *房* | 房* | *房
house / room / CL: 間|间 / branch of an extended family / classifier for family members (or concubines)
master of martial arts, in former times often employed by a landlord to teach fighting skills and guard the house / (fig.) sb who arrogantly and condescendingly lectures others
even number (on a ticket, house etc)
Tripitaka Koreana, Buddhist scriptures carved on 81,340 wooden tablets and housed in the Haein Temple 海印寺 in South Gyeongsang province of South Korea
upper house / senate / senior statesmen's assembly
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  *廉* | 廉* | *廉
incorruptible / honest / inexpensive / to investigate (old) / side wall of a traditional Chinese house (old)
house (music genre) (loanword)
charges for a room / house rental
brand new house / bridal chamber
HSK 7-9
bungalow / single-story house
Ambush from Ten Sides (pipa solo piece) / House of Flying Daggers (2004 movie by Zhang Yimou 張藝謀|张艺谋)
to go from house to house
HSK 7-9
to set out / to display / to furnish (a room or house)
supplied with water (of a house)
White House
house / house with a courtyard
home / residence / house
row house / townhouse / terrace house
tile-roofed house
a golden house to keep one's mistress (idiom); a magnificent house built for a beloved woman
house mouse
to break into a house for robbery (idiom)
to buy a house on a mortgage / house mortgage
inner courtyard (in a courtyard house)
to provide a place to stay / to house / to accommodate / (of an institution etc) to take in / to accept

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