Definition
开房间 is a verb-object compound (离合词) with two common meanings. The primary meaning is 'to book or rent a hotel room'. Colloquially, it can also be used as a euphemism for 'to rent a hotel room for a sexual encounter' — similar to the English phrase 'get a room'. As a separable verb, the object 房间 can be split off by a measure word or adjective: 开了一个房间.
v.o.
(v.o.) to book/rent a hotel room(v.o., colloquial euphemism) to get a hotel room for a sexual encounterto 'get a room'
Examples
- ，开房间。Wǒ míngtiān yào qù Běijīng chūchāi, xiān zài wǎng shàng kāi fáng jiān.I need to go to Beijing on a business trip tomorrow, so I'll book a hotel room online first.
- ，。Wǒmen zài zhè jiā jiǔdiàn kāi le yí ge fángjiān, hěn gānjìng.We booked a room at this hotel, and it's very clean.
- 开房间。Tāmen liǎng ge rén tōutōu qù kāi fáng jiān le.The two of them secretly went to get a room.
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