Kanji1 / 8
房 kanji
tassel, tuft, fringe, bunch, lock (hair), segment (orange), house, room
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
ボウ
Kun readings
ふさ
Words with 房
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —暖房機heater; heating unit
- —冷房車air-conditioned car
- —右心房right atrium
- —女房役assistant; right-hand man; subordinate; wifely role
- —女房詞secret language of court ladies (Muromachi period)
- —左心房left atrium
- —床暖房floor heating; underfloor heating
- —乳房炎mastitis
- —恋女房one's dear wife
- —房の内inside of a chamber
- —独居房single-person cell; solitary cell; solitary confinement cell
- —側女房mistress; concubine
- —冷房機air conditioner; cooler
- —房室弁atrioventricular valve
- —房中術Taoist sexual alchemy (supposed to prolong the practitioner's life)
- —官房学cameralism
- —雑居房multi-person cell; shared cell
- —古女房good old wife; one's wife of many years
- —同房者cellmate
- —冷房病adverse health effects supposedly caused by air conditioning; air-conditioning sickness