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HSK
haunted house
tree house
bakery
house / room / CL: 間|间
HSK 3
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  *屋* | 屋* | *屋
(bound form) house / (bound form) room
HSK 5
house / building / CL: ,
HSK 3
outdoors; outside
roof
coffee house / café / CL:
when it rains, it pours (idiom)
eaves / roof (i.e. home)
lit. love the house and its crow (idiom); involvement with sb and everyone connected / Love me, love my dog.
row house / townhouse / terrace house
a golden house to keep one's mistress (idiom); a magnificent house built for a beloved woman
cabin / lodge / cottage / chalet / hut / shed
Nagoya, city in Japan
the roof of the world (usually refers to Tibet or Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau 青藏高原)
igloo
lit. in books are sumptuous houses and graceful ladies (proverb) / fig. be diligent in your studies, success and glory will follow
prefabricated building / prefab / mobile home / caravan / trailer
lit. house made of gold / fig. luxurious residence
kennel
building society (finance)
to stare at the ceiling in despair / to find no way out / nothing you can do about it / at the end of one's wits
izakaya (a kind of traditional Japanese pub)
(Cantonese) home; family (Mandarin equivalent: )
lit. earthen steps and a small cottage / frugal living conditions (idiom)
roommate / to share a room
roof
HSK 7-9
(literary) house / building
(HK) public housing estate
Touwu township in Miaoli county 苗栗縣|苗栗县, northwest Taiwan
dome
housing agent / real estate agent
thatched cottage
cockroach trap
a building / the frame of a building / roof beam / truss
roof ridge
subprime mortgage crisis
magnificent residence / splendid house
when it rains, it pours (idiom)
humble dwelling
central room of a traditional Chinese house
(dialect) kitchen
room tiles
to sack the home and lead off the cattle (proverb) / to strip of everything
lit. multiple roof / building of several stories
squatter shacks
house built with cheap, unreliable concrete which contains a high quantity of sea sand
HDB flats / public apartment flats (in Singapore and Malaysia)
barbershop
thatched roof
lit. to stare at the ceiling while writing a book (idiom); to put one's whole body and soul into a book
Nagoya, city in Japan (old spelling)
magnificent building reduced to a mound of rubble (idiom); fig. all one's plans in ruins
Touwu township in Miaoli county 苗栗縣|苗栗县, northwest Taiwan
to lie looking at the ceiling (in despair)
thatched hut
birdhouse
ancestral house


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