The Chinese word for laundry is
洗衣房
xĭ yī fángChinese 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
洗衣房 | |
1. n. laundry (place or room where laundering is done) |
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.) |
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xĭ yī fáng
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