文房

Chinese

language; culture; writing
language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle
 
 house
trad. (文房) 文 房
simp. #(文房) 文 房

Pronunciation

Noun

文房

  1. (formal) study (room)
  2. (archaic) department in charge of official documents and correspondence
  3. (Vietnam) office

Usage notes

In Chinese, the common word for study (as in a room designated for reading or writing) is 書房／书房 (shūfáng); its 雅稱／雅称 (yǎchēng, “elegant name”) is 書齋／书斋 (shūzhāi) or 文房 (wénfáng).

Synonyms

  • (study):
Dialectal synonyms of 書房 (“study (room)”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 書房, 書齋, 文房
Northeastern Mandarin Taiwan 書房
Singapore 書房
Cantonese Hong Kong 書房
Hakka Miaoli (N. Sixian) 書房
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) 書房
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) 書房
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) 書房
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) 書房
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) 書房
Northern Min Jian'ou 書間仔
Southern Min Xiamen 冊房
Quanzhou 冊房
Jinjiang 書間
Zhangzhou 冊房
Penang (Hokkien) 寫字房
Wu Shanghai 書房, 書房間

Derived terms

Japanese

Kanji in this term
文 房
ぶん
Grade: 1 		ぼう
Grade: S
on'yomi

Etymology

/bunbau/ → /bunbɔː/ → /bunboː/

From Middle Chinese 文房 (MC mjun bjang, literally “literature, studies, writing + room, area”). Uses the kan'on reading for the first character, so possibly a later borrowing.

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) ぶんぼー [bùńbóó] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [bɯ̟̃mbo̞ː]

Noun

文(ぶん)房(ぼう) • (bunbō) ←ぶんばう (bunbau)?

  1. a study, an office
    Synonym: 書斎 (shosai)

See also

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term
文房

Noun

文房 • (munbang) (hangeul 문방)

  1. hanja form? of 문방 (“study (room)”)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
文房

Noun

文房

  1. chữ Hán form of văn phòng (“office”)
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