The Chinese word for laundry is
洗衣房
xĭ yī fáng
Chinese Definition
| laundry | |
| 1. 洗衣处 | |
| 2. 洗衣店 | |
| 3. 洗衣室 | |
| 4. 洗衣 | |
| 5. 洗涤物 | |
| Components | |
| 洗 | |
| 1. (Cantonese) (alt form, yue, 使, t=to need) | |
| 2. Variant of 㭠 | |
| 3. Variant of 洒 | |
| 衣 | |
| 1. (upper) garment; clothes; clothing | |
| 衣服 - clothes | |
| 內衣 - underwear | |
| 睡衣 - night clothes; pajamas | |
| 2. coating; covering; skin | |
| 糖衣 - sugar coating | |
| 槍衣 - gun cover | |
| 3. membrane; film | |
| 4. (literary or dialectal) afterbirth; placenta | |
| 衣yì錦還huán鄉 - to return home in glory | |
| 房 | |
| 1. house | |
| 我 一.個.人 在 房 裡 - I'm alone in the house. | |
| 2. room | |
| 我 可以 把 提包 撂 在 你 房 裡 嗎？ - Can I dump my bags in your room? | |
| 我 已經 把 這 間 房 分 給 你 了。 - I have allocated this room to you. | |
| 3. house-like structure | |
| 心房 - heart (as a house of emotions); cardiac atrium | |
| 4. branch of a family | |
| 二房 - second son and his family | |
| 5. wife; concubine | |
| 妻房 - wife | |
| 二房 - concubine | |
| 偏房 - concubine | |
| 收房 - to take as concubine | |
| 6. sexual activity | |
| 行房 - to go to bed with | |
| 7. (mainland) apartment | |
| 8. (Taiwan) apartment | |
| 三 房 親戚qi - three relatives | |
| 四 房 兄弟 - four brothers | |
| 娶 一 房 側室 - to take a concubine | |
| 兩 房 媳婦 - two daughters-in-law | |
| 9. (astronomy) the Room (a Chinese constellation, 4th of the Twenty-Eight Mansions and part of the Azure Dragon) | |
| 10. . Fang | |
| ^房 ^玄-齡 - Fang Xuanling (Tang dynasty politician) | |
| 11. (place, zh, t=Fang County, county, prefecture-level city/Shiyan, p/Hubei, c/China) | |
| 12. (obsolete) side room | |
| 13. Used in 阿房宮 (gloss=Epang Palace) | |
| 14. Used in 房皇 (gloss=wavering; pacing up and down,) Alternative form of 彷徨 |
Translations for 房 and their definitions
| 要洗的衣服 | |
| 1. laundry |
| 洗衣 | |
| 1. v. to do the laundry; to wash clothes | |
| 洗衣 做飯 - to do the laundry and cook meals; to manage household affairs |
| 洗衣房 | |
| 1. n. laundry (place or room where laundering is done) |
| 洗衣店 | |
| 1. n. laundry (shop where laundering services are provided); laundromat | |
| 自助 洗衣店 - launderette |
| 洗濯 | |
| 1. v. (literary) to wash | |
| 2. v. (literary, figurative) to wash off; to clear oneself of (opprobrium, stigma, guilt, etc.) |
Dictionary entries from Wiktionary
Pronunciation
xĭ yī fáng
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