IDENTITY
室shìroom; office
HSK 3Top 600
CORE MEANING
room; office
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.room; officeHSK3
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 宀roof radical (mián)
- strokes
- 9
- Structure
- top-bottom compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿱宀至
- roof
- arriving; settling
USAGE
Common words
教室jiàoshìclassroom
办公室bàngōngshìoffice
卧室wòshìbedroom
Graded examples
教室很干净。Jiàoshì hěn gānjìng.HSK2
The classroom is very clean.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 宝
LEARNING
Memory aid
A roof (宀) under which one settles (至) — a room, an office.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #600
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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