售房 (shòu fáng) — to sell a house or property | tongtong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

verb

to sell a house or property

Examples

售房。
Zhè jiā gōng sī zhuān mén shòu fáng.
This company specializes in selling houses.
售房，。
Tā zuì jìn zài shòu fáng, zhǔn bèi huàn yí tào gèng dà de.
He's been selling his house recently, planning to trade up to a bigger one.
售房。
shòu fáng Guǎng gào tiē zài le xiǎo qū mén kǒu.
The house-selling ad was posted at the entrance of the neighborhood.

Origin

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

动宾dòngbīnVerb + object

An action followed by what it acts on, fused into one word.

售 means to sell and 房 means house, so together they mean to sell a house.

Characters in this word

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú

戶戶hùdoor

Sound part声符shēngfú

方

方fāng房fáng

Same sound today

房 pairs 戶 (door) with 方 (fāng) as a sound part; 方 can also fit 'side,' as in a side room beside the main room.

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