牢房
láo fáng
Pinyin

Definition

牢房
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láo fáng
  1. jail cell
  2. prison cell

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

厨房
chú fáng
  1. 1 kitchen
  2. 2 CL:間|间[jiān]
房
Fáng
  1. 1 surname Fang
房子
fáng zi
  1. 1 house
  2. 2 building (single- or two-story)
  3. 3 apartment
  4. 4 room
  5. 5 CL:棟|栋[dòng],幢[zhuàng],座[zuò],套[tào],間|间[jiān]
房间
fáng jiān
  1. 1 room
  2. 2 CL:間|间[jiān],個|个[gè]
乳房
rǔ fáng
  1. 1 breast
  2. 2 udder
二手房
èr shǒu fáng
  1. 1 second-hand house
  2. 2 house acquired indirectly through a middle-man
住房
zhù fáng
  1. 1 housing
健身房
jiàn shēn fáng
  1. 1 gym
  2. 2 gymnasium
地牢
dì láo
  1. 1 prison
  2. 2 dungeon
套房
tào fáng
  1. 1 suite
  2. 2 apartment
  3. 3 flat
客房
kè fáng
  1. 1 guest room
心房
xīn fáng
  1. 1 heart (as the seat of emotions)
  2. 2 cardiac atrium
房价
fáng jià
  1. 1 house price
  2. 2 cost of housing
房地产
fáng dì chǎn
  1. 1 real estate
房屋
fáng wū
  1. 1 house
  2. 2 building
  3. 3 CL:所[suǒ],套[tào]
房东
fáng dōng
  1. 1 landlord
房产
fáng chǎn
  1. 1 real estate
  2. 2 the property market (e.g. houses)
房租
fáng zū
  1. 1 rent for a room or house
房贷
fáng dài
  1. 1 home loan
房门
fáng mén
  1. 1 door of a room

Idioms (8)

三天不打，上房揭瓦
sān tiān bù dǎ , shàng fáng jiē wǎ
  1. 1 three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof to rip the tiles (idiom)
  2. 2 spare the rod, spoil the child
亡羊补牢
wáng yáng bǔ láo
  1. 1 lit. to mend the pen after sheep are lost (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to act belatedly
  3. 3 better late than never
  4. 4 to lock the stable door after the horse has bolted
宠擅专房
chǒng shàn zhuān fáng
  1. 1 an especially favored concubine (idiom)
文房四宝
wén fáng sì bǎo
  1. 1 Four Treasures of the Study, namely 筆|笔[bǐ], 墨[mò], 紙|纸[zhǐ] and 硯|砚[yàn]
  2. 2 the essentials of calligraphy and scholarship (idiom)
洞房花烛
dòng fáng huā zhú
  1. 1 bridal room and ornamented candles
  2. 2 wedding festivities (idiom)
满腹牢骚
mǎn fù láo sāo
  1. 1 lit. belly full of complaints (idiom)
  2. 2 discontent
  3. 3 always moaning and complaining
画地为牢
huà dì wéi láo
  1. 1 lit. to be confined within a circle drawn on the ground (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to confine oneself to a restricted range of activities
蹿房越脊
cuān fáng yuè jǐ
  1. 1 lit. to leap the house and cross the roofridge (idiom); dashing over rooftops (of robbers and pursuing knight-errant 俠客|侠客 in fiction)

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