单间 (dān jiān) — single room (for one person); separate room | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

single room (for one person)separate room

Measure word · 间

Examples

单间。
Wǒ xiǎng dìng yí gè dān jiān.
I would like to book a single room.
单间。
Zhè jiā yī yuàn de dān jiān dōu hěn ān jìng.
The single rooms in this hospital are all very quiet.
单间。
Tā zài bàn gōng lóu fù jìn zū le yí gè dān jiān.
He rented a single room near the office building.

Origin

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

单 means single and 间 means room, so the meaning is a separate room for one person.

Characters in this word

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 單; 单 is its simplified writing.

The form 單 originally pictured a Y-shaped wooden stick with two stones on top.

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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