屋 - Dong Chinese dictionary

wū

house, room

Depicts a roof or yurt (𡉉) over a room (室).

Components

què

yurt

Depicts a yurt. 𡉉 also represents the sound. Modern form looks like 尸.

屋 and 𡉉 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 𡉉 than it was in ancient scripts.

室 Meaning Remnant component

shì

room

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

屋

wū

house; room; building, shelter; CL:間|间[jiān],個|个[gè]

Most common words with 屋

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	屋	house
	房屋	house
	屋子	house
	屋顶	roof
	小屋	cabin

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

幄

Sound component in 6 characters (2 verified)

握喔渥齷龌幄

Iconic component in 1 character (1 verified)

屚

Remnant component in 1 character (1 verified)

屚

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
qˤok (or ʔˤok ?)	'uwk	wū	house; roof

Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 44.9303% of movies

866th most common character in movies

863rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	9
Unicode	U+5C4B
Shuowen	“屋，居也。从尸，尸，所主也。一曰尸象屋形；从至，至，所至止。室、屋皆从至。，籀文屋，从厂。，古文屋。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

季旭昇《說文新證》p.677-678

zi.tools

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