下房 xià fáng
xià fáng
proper noun
servants' quarters
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: This terms was used in historic times when wealthy households employed servants (ABC '下房'; CED '下房'). For example, 夏先生住三间，厨房占一间，其余的两间作为下房 'Mr Xia occupied three rooms, the kitched counted as one room, and the other two rooms were servants' quarters.' (Lao She, 2003, p. 301)
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 第二回 Chapter 113 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 2
- 卷四百九十五 列傳第二百五十四 蠻夷三 撫水州 廣源州 黎洞 環州 Volume 495 Biographies 254: Man People 3 - Fu Shuizhou, Guang Yuanzhou, Li Dong, Huan Zhou History of Song 宋史 — count: 1
- 第三十回 Chapter 30 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 1
- 《封禪書》 Religious sacrificial ceremonies Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 1
- 第二回 Chapter 43 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 1
- 卷108之四 禮志四之四 Volume 108d Treatise 4: Rituals 4 Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 1
- 第七十四回 Chapter 74 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 1
- Luotuo Xiangzi 《骆驼祥子》 A small number of phrases from the writings of Lao She — count: 1
- 卷二十五下 郊祀志 Volume 25b: Treatise on Sacrifices 2 Book of Han 漢書 — count: 1
- 第二回 Chapter 3 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 1
Collocations
- 廊下房 (廊下房) 出到前廳廊下房門前 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第三十回 Chapter 30 — count: 2
- 下房去 (下房去) 自領丫鬟婆子下房去安歇 — Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢, 第二回 Chapter 59 — count: 2