房

Meaning

房 centers on a cluster or compartment: a bunch of hair or fruit segments, and by extension a partitioned room or small house. The tassel and fringe senses are specific hanging cluster applications.

• 官房かんぼう

  government secretariat

• 工房こうぼう

  workshop; studio; atelier

• 房ふさ
  N1

  tuft (of hair, threads, etc.); fringe; tassel

• 冷房れいぼう
  N4

  air conditioning; air cooling

• 暖房だんぼう
  N4

  (indoor) heating

• 女房にょうぼう
  N2

  wife (esp. one's own wife)

• 厨房ちゅうぼう

  kitchen; galley

• 乳房ちぶさ

  breast; udder

• 書房しょぼう

  study; library

• 文房具ぶんぼうぐ
  N2

  stationery

• 冷暖房れいだんぼう

  air conditioning and heating

• 独房どくぼう

  single-person cell; isolation cell; solitary cell; solitary confinement cell

• 安房あわ

  Awa (former province located in the south of present-day Chiba Prefecture)

• 心房しんぼう

  atrium

• 茶房さぼう

  teahouse; coffee shop

• 内房線うちぼうせん

  Uchibō Line

• 外房線そとぼうせん

  Sotobō Line

• 花房はなぶさ

  calyx; corolla

• 富士見書房ふじみしょぼう

  Fujimi Shobo (publisher)

• 監房かんぼう

  (prison) cell; ward

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