室 (sat1 | shi4) : room; home; chamber

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室

sat1

shi4

[1] [n] room; home; house; chamber; apartment [2] [n] wife

Stroke count: 9

Level: 2

Radical: 宀 (#40)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

室

Don't confuse with:
窒

This word has been viewed 13191 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 8th Jul 2009 20:44

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餐室 caan1 sat1 can1 shi4 = small restaurant

課室 fo3 sat1 = classroom

急症室 gap1 zing3 sat1 ji2 zheng4 shi4 = emergency ward 粵

教室 gaau3 sat1 jiao4 shi4 = classroom

辦公室 baan6 gung1 sat1 ban4 gong1 shi4 = office

室內 sat1 noi6 shi4 nei4 = indoor; indoors

陳列室 can4 lit6 sat1 = showroom

展覽室 zin2 laam5 sat1 = exhibition room

咖啡室 gaa3 fe1 sat1 ka1 fei1 shi4 = coffee room

起居室 hei2 geoi1 sat1 = living room
See all 91 compounds (CantoDict reports 98 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

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間辦公室俾啲細路搞到立立亂。粵
The office was turned upside-down by the kids.
[[parsing] (classifier) office by (plural classifier) kids make (extent particle) chaotic http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?14,128766 ]

跟我入去我間實驗室。你睇吓我嘅雷射。粵
Follow me into my lab and take a look at my laser.

你要掉咗啲垃圾, 間辦公室好亂粵
Can you bin the junk that's lying around? The office is a mess.
[Lit. you need throw-away [particle used in imperatives] [plural particle] rubbish, [counter] office very messy Other words you could use instead of 好亂: 好亂龍, 亂晒, 亂晒龍, or 亂晒大龍]

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國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese.
粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

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Decimal representation of this word: 室
Unicode code for this character: U+5BA4 (off-site link)

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