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
- 第二回 Chapter 59 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 1
- 卷二十五下 郊祀志 Volume 25b: Treatise on Sacrifices 2 Book of Han 漢書 — count: 1
- 第七十四回 Chapter 74 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 1
- 卷六 武帝紀 Volume 6: Annals of Emperor Wu Book of Han 漢書 — count: 1
- 第六 禮儀下 大喪諸侯王列侯始封貴人公主薨 Volume 96: Etiquette Part Three Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 1
- 第二回 Chapter 65 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 1
- 《孝武本紀》 Annals of the Xiaowu Emperor Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 1
- Luotuo Xiangzi 《骆驼祥子》 A small number of phrases from the writings of Lao She — count: 1
- 第二回 Chapter 43 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