"house" meaning in Chinese

See house in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /hɐu̯⁵⁵ siː³⁵/ [Cantonese, Sinological-IPA], /hɐu̯⁵⁵ siː³⁵/ Chinese transliterations: hau¹ si² [Cantonese, Jyutping], hāu sí [Cantonese, Yale], hau¹ si² [Cantonese, Pinyin], heo¹ xi² [Cantonese, Guangdong-Romanization]
Etymology: From English house. Etymology templates: {{bor|yue|en|house}} English house Head templates: {{head|zh|noun}} house
  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) mansion; large house (Classifier: 間/间 c) Tags: Cantonese, Hong-Kong
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Download raw JSONL data for house meaning in Chinese (1.4kB)

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