室しつ

noun, noun, used as a suffix

room; chamber; room suffix

Common as a noun-forming suffix for rooms or chambers of a particular kind. As a standalone everyday word for 'room', 部屋 is usually more natural; 室 is more formal or compound-like.

• 午ご後ご三さん時じから会かい議ぎ室しつを予よ約やくした。

  I reserved a meeting room from three in the afternoon.

• この建たて物ものには実じっ験けん室しつが三みっつある。

  This building has three laboratories.

noun, noun, used as a suffix

wife of a high-ranking person

Rare historical or genealogical use for the wife of someone of high rank. It is not the normal modern word for 'wife'.

• 系けい図ずでは、領りょう主しゅの妻つまを「室しつ」と記しるすことがある。

  In genealogies, a lord's wife may be written as 室.

noun, noun, used as a suffix

scabbard

Rare use meaning a sword scabbard. In modern Japanese, 鞘 is the ordinary word for this meaning.

• 「室しつ」が刀かたなのさやを指さす用よう法ほうは、現げん在ざいではまれである。

  The use of 室 to refer to a sword scabbard is rare today.

noun, noun, used as a suffix

Encampment mansion; Chinese constellation 室

Astronomical term for the Chinese 'Encampment' mansion, one of the twenty-eight lunar mansions and associated with 玄武.

See also: 二十八宿 · 玄武 (げんぶ)

• 室しつは二に十じゅう八はっ宿しゅくの一ひとつで、玄げん武ぶに属ぞくする。

  室 is one of the twenty-eight lunar mansions and belongs to the Black Tortoise group.