房 — house; room
house; room; branch of an extended family
- Pinyin
- fáng · Fáng
- Strokes
- 8
- HSK level
- HSK 1
- Handwriting
- recognition only
This character has more than one reading — fáng, Fáng — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.
How to write 房: 8 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.
Words with 房 in the HSK syllabus: 15
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.
- 房间fángjiānroomHSK 1
- 房子fángzihouse; building; apartment; roomHSK 3
- 厨房chúfángkitchenHSK 4
- 房东fángdōnglandlordHSK 4
- 房租fángzūrent for a room or houseHSK 4
- 健身房jiànshēnfánggym; fitness clubHSK 4
- 病房bìngfángward; sickroomHSK 5
- 房屋fángwūhouse; buildingHSK 5
- 书房shūfángstudy; studioHSK 5
- 住房zhùfánghousingHSK 5
- 房价fángjiàhouse price; cost of housingHSK 6
- 房地产fángdìchǎnreal estateHSK 7–9
- 客房kèfángguest room; roomHSK 7–9
- 票房piàofángbox officeHSK 7–9
- 平房píngfángbungalow; single-story houseHSK 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.