CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

楼房

lóufáng

a building of two or more stories

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

a building of two or more stories

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 楼房 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 楼房 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

到处都是新建造的楼房。dào chù dōu shì xīn jiàn zào de lóu fáng。

New buildings are being built here, there and everywhere.

因为几乎所有的四合院有南面的门和主要楼房，所以大部分的胡同是从东到西建造的。yīn wèi jī hū suǒ yǒu de sì hé yuàn yǒu nán miàn de mén hé zhǔ yào lóu fáng， suǒ yǐ dà bù fèn de hú tòng shì cóng dōng dào xī jiàn zào de。

Nearly all siheyuans had their main buildings and gates facing south for better lighting, so a majority of hutongs run from east to west.

二十世纪中以后，北京胡同的数量显著地下降，因为人们把它们拆毁以便给新的楼房和街路让路。èr shí shì jì zhōng yǐ hòu， běi jīng hú tòng de shù liàng xiǎn zhù dì xià jiàng， yīn wèi rén men bǎ tā men chāi huǐ yǐ biàn gěi xīn de lóu fáng hé jiē lù ràng lù。

Since the mid-20th century, the number of hutongs in Beijing has dropped dramatically as they are demolished to make way for new roads and buildings.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 楼房.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 楼房.

Directly before

的楼房2
主要楼房1

Directly after

楼房和1

ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 楼房

What does 楼房 mean in Chinese?

楼房 (lóufáng) means a building of two or more stories.

How do you pronounce 楼房?

楼房 is pronounced lóufáng.

Is 楼房 an HSK word?

楼房 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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