房间
room
HSK level
- Pinyin
- fángjiān
- Part of speech
- noun
- Level
- HSK 2
- Strokes
- 15
- Register
- neutral
- Measure word
- 个 / 间
- In episodes
- 1
Stroke order for 房间
房间 is written with 15 strokes (房: 8, 间: 7). The animation replays automatically.
What does 房间 mean?
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').
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房间 appears in 1 Fluentide podcast episode at natural native speed. Each sentence plays at the easiest difficulty it exists in — switch it to hear the same moment at your level, with full pinyin and English throughout.
道奇队的球员很高兴，他们在房间里庆祝。
The Dodgers players were happy and celebrated in the locker room.
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Example sentences
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
Common phrases with 房间
Synonyms
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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