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室 — room; work unit; grave

room; work unit; grave; scabbard; family or clan

Pinyin
shì · Shì
Strokes
9
HSK level
HSK 2
Handwriting
recognition only

This character has more than one reading — shì, Shì — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 室: 9 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

室 — 9 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 室 in the HSK syllabus: 10

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 教室jiàoshìclassroomHSK 2
  2. 办公室bàngōngshìoffice; business premisesHSK 3
  3. 室shìroom; work unit; grave; scabbard; family or clanHSK 3
  4. 实验室shíyànshìlaboratoryHSK 5
  5. 卧室wòshìbedroomHSK 5
  6. 浴室yùshìbathroom; shower room; bathhouseHSK 6
  7. 更衣室gēngyīshìchange room; dressing room; locker room; toiletHSK 7–9
  8. 皇室huángshìroyal family; imperial householdHSK 7–9
  9. 寝室qǐnshìbedroom; dormitoryHSK 7–9
  10. 温室wēnshìgreenhouseHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.