書房

See also: 书房

Chinese

		book; letter	house
trad. (書房)		書	房
simp. (书房)		书	房

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): shūfáng

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨ ㄈㄤˊ

  (Dungan, Cyrillic and Wiktionary): фуфон (fufon, I-I)

• Cantonese (Jyutping): syu¹ fong^4-2
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sû-fòng
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chu-pâng / su-pâng / chir-pâng

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ze¹ bang⁵ / zu¹ bang⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shūfáng
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨ ㄈㄤˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shufáng
    • Wade–Giles: shu¹-fang²
    • Yale: shū-fáng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shufarng
    • Palladius: шуфан (šufan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu⁵⁵ fɑŋ³⁵/
  • (Dungan)
    • Cyrillic and Wiktionary: фуфон (fufon, I-I)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fou²⁴ fɑŋ²⁴/

    (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: syu¹ fong^4-2
    • Yale: syū fóng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sy¹ fong^4-2
    • Guangdong Romanization: xu¹ fong^4-2
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /syː⁵⁵ fɔːŋ²¹⁻³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sû-fòng
    • Hakka Romanization System: su´ fongˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: su¹ fong²
    • Sinological IPA: /su²⁴ foŋ¹¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chu-pâng
    • Tâi-lô: tsu-pâng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zu'paang
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡su⁴⁴⁻³³ paŋ²³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡su⁴⁴⁻³³ paŋ²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Yilan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: su-pâng
    • Tâi-lô: su-pâng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: su'paang
    • IPA (Yilan): /su⁴⁴⁻³³ paŋ²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chir-pâng
    • Tâi-lô: tsir-pâng
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sɯ³³ paŋ²⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ze¹ bang⁵ / zu¹ bang⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsṳ pâng / tsu pâng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɯ³³⁻²³ paŋ⁵⁵/, /t͡su³³⁻²³ paŋ⁵⁵/

Note: ze1 bang5 - Chaozhou.

Noun

書房

1. study (room)
2. (Dungan) library

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): 書齋／书斋 (shūzhāi), 文房 (wénfáng); (Hokkien) 冊房／册房, 寫字房／写字房
• (library):

Dialectal synonyms of 圖書館 (“library”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		圖書館
Mandarin	Beijing	圖書館, 圖兒館 colloquial
	Taiwan	圖書館
	Singapore	圖書館
	Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan)	書房, библиотека
Cantonese	Hong Kong	圖書館, 拉把, 拉記
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	圖書館
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	圖書館
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	圖書館
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	圖書館
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	圖書館
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	圖書館
Southern Min	Xiamen	圖書館
	Tainan	圖書館
	Penang (Hokkien)	讀冊館, 圖書館

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (書房):

• → Japanese: 書房(しょぼう) (shobō)
• → Korean: 서방(書房) (seobang)
• → Vietnamese: thư phòng (書房)

References

• Duffus, William (1883) “study”, in English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Swatow, Swatow: English Presbyterian Mission Press, page 258

Japanese

Kanji in this term
書	房
しょ Grade: 2	ぼう Grade: S
on’yomi

Noun

書(しょ)房(ぼう) • (shobō) 

1. study (room)
2. bookshop