房
chamber; tassel; tuft; fringe; bunch; lock (hair); segment (orange); house
8 strokes. Jōyō kanji, taught in secondary school. Newspaper frequency rank 808.
Readings
- ボウ (on reading): 工房 (こうぼう) workshop; 暖房 (だんぼう) (indoor) heating
- ふさ (kun reading): 乳房 (ちぶさ) breast; 房 (ふさ) tuft (of hair, threads, etc.)
- Read as a whole word: 安房 (あわ) Awa (former province located in the south of present-day Chiba Prefecture)
Components
Words using 房
- 工房 (こうぼう) workshop
- 暖房 (だんぼう) (indoor) heating
- 冷房 (れいぼう) air conditioning
- 内閣官房 (ないかくかんぼう) Cabinet Secretariat
- 女房 (にょうぼう) wife (esp. one's own wife)
- 乳房 (ちぶさ) breast
- 房 (ふさ) tuft (of hair, threads, etc.)
- 花房 (はなぶさ) calyx
- 乳房再建 (ちぶささいけん) breast reconstruction
- 房房した (ふさふさした) tufty
- 安房 (あわ) Awa (former province located in the south of present-day Chiba Prefecture)
- 房宿 (そいぼし) Chinese "room" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
- 阿房払い (あほうばらい) stripping a samurai of clothes and swords and exiling him naked (Edo-period punishment)
135 words in all.