工房 (gōng fáng) — workshop (a room or building where manual work…

Definition

noun

workshop (a room or building where manual work is done, especially for crafts or small-scale production)

Measure word · 间

Easily confused

工房。
Tā zài gōng fáng lǐ zuò mù gōng.
He does woodworking in the workshop.
工房。
Zhè jiān gōng fáng shè bèi hěn qí quán.
This workshop is very well equipped.
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Gōng chǎng hòu miàn yǒu yí gè xiǎo gōng fáng.
There is a small workshop behind the factory.

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.

工 means work and 房 means room, together naming a room for manual work.

Characters in this word

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

The shape of 工 is a picture of a bladed tool used to plow ground or mark a border; some read it as a carpenter's square.

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

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.