寝室 (qǐn shì) — dormitory (shared sleeping quarters in a school or workplace); bedroom (in a broader sense, a room for sleeping)
Definition
寝室 usually means a shared student dormitory room. Compared with 卧室 (a private bedroom at home), it implies a shared school setting; 宿舍 is the more common modern word for the same meaning.
noun
dormitory (shared sleeping quarters in a school or workplace)bedroom (in a broader sense, a room for sleeping)
Measure word · 间
Examples
- 寝室，。Wǒ men xué xiào de qǐn shì hěn gān jìng, měi jiān zhù sì gè rén.Our school's dormitories are very clean, with four people per room.
- 寝室，。Zhè jiān qǐn shì cháo nán, yáng guāng hěn hǎo.This dormitory faces south and gets good sunlight.
- 寝室。Tā měi tiān huí qǐn shì zhī qián dōu huì qù tú shū guǎn xué xí.He goes to the library to study every day before returning to his dormitory.
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