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HSK
classroom / CL: 間|间
HSK 2
office; business premises
HSK 2
laboratory / CL: 間|间
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *室* | 室* | *室
room / work unit / grave / scabbard / family or clan / one of the 28 constellations of Chinese astronomy
HSK 3
lecture theater
basement / cellar
HSK 6
broadcasting studio
HSK 7-9
infirmary / ward / sickroom / CL: 間|间
bedroom / dormitory / CL: 間|间
HSK 7-9
reading room / CL: 間|间
HSK 5
ionization chamber
tympanic cavity (of the middle ear)
safe places for storing important articles
lobby / lounge
studio / workshop
control room
inner room / bedroom
royal family / royal household
change room; dressing room; locker room / (euphemism) toilet
HSK 7-9
emergency room
coffee shop
Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council
recording studio
operating room
HSK 7-9
royal family / imperial household / member of the royal family
HSK 7-9
Taiwan Affairs Office
room / apartment
wife
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *室* | 室* | *室
surname Shi
a room for keeping sth hidden / secret room / hidden chamber
parlor
teaching and research office
house (music genre) (loanword)
bedroom / CL: 間|间
HSK 5
ventricle (heart)
department / administrative division / unit (e.g. intensive care unit)
room
cinema room / viewing room
living room / sitting room
gym
cloud chamber
bathroom; shower room (CL:間|间) / bathhouse
HSK 7-9
auditing department; accounting department; comptroller office
primary wife (in contrast to concubine); legal wife
chat room
State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China
lit. to show the wolf into the house (idiom) / fig. to introduce a potential source of trouble
wife / family / (literary) residence
artist's studio / atelier
to get married (idiom)
bell chamber (at the top of a bell tower)
guest room
school administration office
Studio Ghibli, Japanese film studio
infirmary / sick bay / CL: 個|个
dressing room / powder room / (Tw) toilets
very small room; tiny, cramped space
consulting room
supply room
(idiom) (of a married woman) to be unfaithful; to have extramarital affairs
reception office / janitor's office
Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC)
ventricles of the brain
language laboratory
Bell Labs
office (room) / ruling families during Spring and Autumn period
State Key Laboratories (university laboratories in PRC supported by the central government)
lit. to open a room / fig. to settle in a quiet room / behind closed doors
magnificent room
mail room / radio room (i.e. reception and transmission)
dining room
lit. a room with irises and orchids (idiom); fig. in wealthy and pleasant company
dispatch office
meeting room / conference room
greenhouse
HSK 7-9
lit. to reach the main room and enter the chamber (idiom) / fig. to gradually attain proficiency / to attain a higher level
imperial clan / member of the imperial clan / clansman / ancestral shrine
concubine
Oval office (in the White House)
darkroom
pilothouse
waiting room (at clinic, hospital)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, R&D center in Pasadena, California
Brookhaven National Laboratory
exhibition room; display room
reception room
cloud chamber (physics)
lit. from the main room, enter the inner chamber (idiom) / fig. to go to the next level; to attain a higher level
VIP lounge
broadcasting room
chamber (mining)
waiting room (for train, bus etc)
shared lounge; common room
concubine (old)
underground mine storage room / mine passage
clinic / outpatient department (or consulting room)
exhibition room
case for an ink slab
smoking room
cab (of a locomotive, truck etc); driver's compartment; wheelhouse

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