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Kanji Detail for 室 - "room, chamber, house"

室

  • Meaning

    室 means "room, chamber, house."

    1. Room - An enclosed space in a building.

    2. Chamber - A private room; an inner room.

    3. House - A dwelling; a residence.

    4. Wife - A man's spouse (classical usage).

  • Words using 室

    • 教室 きょうしつ Listen classroom; lecture room; department (in a university)
    • 室内 しつない Listen indoor; inside the room
    • 室長 しつちょう Listen section chief; laboratory manager; office head
    • 皇室 こうしつ Listen Imperial household
    • 会議室 かいぎしつ Listen conference room; council room
    • 研究室 けんきゅうしつ Listen laboratory; seminar room; professor's office
    • 一室 いっしつ Listen one room
    • 密室 みっしつ Listen locked room; secret room

  • Tattoo check: 室

    • Verified meaning: room, chamber, house
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read しつ, だい, はまむろ, むろ)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 室

    Surnames 室(しつ)Listen 室(だい)Listen 室(はまむろ)Listen 室(むろ)Listen 室(むろさき)Listen 室(むろざき)Listen 室(むろまさ)Listen 室(むろらん)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    room; apartment; chamber; greenhouse; cellar

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    room, home, house, chamber; 13th lunar mansion, determinative star α Pegasi (Markab)

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    surname Shi

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    house, home; room, chamber

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    A general term for buildings. Solid. Called 宮 for its domed shape on all four sides; called 室 for its filled-with-goods interior. | A husband regards his wife as 室. Taking a wife is called 授室. Referring to one's wife is 室人. | A star name. One of the twenty-eight lunar mansions.

  • Onyomi

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    shitsu(シツ) シツ

  • Kunyomi

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    muro(むろ) むろ

  • Strokes

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    9 strokes

  • Radical

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    宀 (ukammuri)

  • Related Keywords

    room chamber house grave home wife apartment dwelling office quarters studio suite enclosed interior

Sentences including 室

  • Don't talk in the reading room.

  • When did she leave the classroom?

  • There are many more students in the classroom today than yesterday.

  • There were some students in the classroom.

  • I eat in the classroom.

  • I found her in tears in her room.

  • What's the room rate?

  • A new student came into the class.

  • Keep your classroom clean.

  • Some boys came into the classroom.

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