room
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房间 is written with 15 strokes (房: 8, 间: 7). The animation replays automatically.
房间 (fángjiān) means 'room' — a single enclosed space inside a building, whether a bedroom, hotel room, office, or any private interior.
It's the everyday word a Chinese speaker reaches for when talking about 'my room' (我的房间), 'a hotel room' (酒店房间), or 'cleaning the room' (打扫房间). Unlike English 'room,' which can also mean 'space' (no room left), 房间 only refers to physical enclosed spaces — for the abstract 'space / room,' Chinese uses 空间 (kōngjiān) or 地方 (dìfang).
The character 间 inside 房间 also doubles as the room's measure word, which is why you'll hear both 一个房间 and 一间房间 ('one room'); 间 sounds slightly more standard for hotel and rental contexts. For specific room types, Chinese uses compounds: 卧室 ('bedroom'), 客厅 ('living room'), 厨房 ('kitchen').
Character by character
房间 appears in 2 Fluentide podcast episodes at natural native speed — each with the full Chinese script, pinyin, and line-by-line English translation.
我的房间很小。
Wǒ de fángjiān hěn xiǎo.
My room is very small.
spoken
请打扫一下房间。
Qǐng dǎsǎo yíxià fángjiān.
Please clean the room.
neutral
我们订了一个酒店房间。
Wǒmen dìng le yí ge jiǔdiàn fángjiān.
We booked a hotel room.
neutral
他在房间里看书。
Tā zài fángjiān li kàn shū.
He's reading in the room.
spoken
这个房间有两扇窗户。
Zhège fángjiān yǒu liǎng shàn chuānghu.
This room has two windows.
neutral
屋子 also means 'room' but is more colloquial and tilts toward northern Chinese speech. 房间 is the standard, neutral choice; 屋子 sounds homier.
房 alone means 'house / room' but is mostly used in compounds (厨房 'kitchen', 书房 'study') or in real-estate contexts (买房, 'buy a house'). 房间 is the everyday word for a single room.
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