暖房

nuǎnfáng

noun #34,482

Measure Word

一间暖房 jiān

Meanings

1 greenhouse / hothouse
2 heated room
3 central heating (regional usage)
4 to pay a housewarming visit (verb, traditional custom)

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Examples

她在暖房里种了不少热带植物。

Tā zài nuǎnfáng lǐ zhòng le bù shǎo rèdài zhíwù.

She grew many tropical plants in the greenhouse.

新房子还没暖房，邻居明天来帮我们暖一暖。

Xīn fángzi hái méi nuǎnfáng, línjū míngtiān lái bāng wǒmen nuǎn yi nuǎn.

We haven't had the housewarming yet — the neighbors are coming over tomorrow to warm the place up.

Tips

culture

Three distinct senses worth keeping straight: (1) a glass-and-frame greenhouse for plants — the most common modern reading; (2) a heated room (formal/older usage, now mostly replaced by 暖气房); (3) the verb 暖房 = the traditional housewarming visit friends pay to a couple's new home, especially before a wedding.

memory

暖 (warm) + 房 (room/house) — 'warm room'. The greenhouse sense is metaphorical: a building kept artificially warm so plants think it's still summer.

Stroke Order

暖 nuǎn

房 fáng