暖房

nuǎnfáng

noun #34,482

Measure Word

一间暖房 jiān

Meanings

1 greenhouse / hothouse
2 heated room
3 central heating
4 to pay a housewarming visit

Characters

Examples

HSK 5

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.

HSK 7-9

她在暖房里种了不少热带植物。

Tā zài nuǎnfáng lǐ zhòng le bùshǎo rèdài zhíwù.

She grew many tropical plants in the greenhouse.

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