文房

Chinese

		language; culture; writing language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle	house
trad. (文房)		文	房
simp. #(文房)		文	房

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wénfáng

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄣˊ ㄈㄤˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): man⁴ fong⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wénfáng
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄣˊ ㄈㄤˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wúnfáng
    • Wade–Giles: wên²-fang²
    • Yale: wén-fáng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wenfarng
    • Palladius: вэньфан (vɛnʹfan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wən³⁵ fɑŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: man⁴ fong⁴
    • Yale: màhn fòhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: man⁴ fong⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: men⁴ fong⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɐn²¹ fɔːŋ²¹/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 民房 民防

Noun

文房

1. (formal) study (room)
2. (archaic) department in charge of official documents and correspondence
3. (Vietnam) office

Usage notes

In Chinese, the common word for study (as in a room designated for reading or writing) is 書房／书房 (shūfáng); its 雅稱／雅称 (yǎchēng, “elegant name”) is 書齋／书斋 (shūzhāi) or 文房 (wénfáng).

Synonyms

• (study):

Dialectal synonyms of 書房 (“study (room)”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		書房, 書齋, 文房
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	書房
Cantonese	Hong Kong	書房
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	書房
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	書房
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	書房
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	書房
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	書房
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	書房
Southern Min	Xiamen	冊房
	Quanzhou	冊房
	Jinjiang	書間
	Zhangzhou	冊房
	Penang (Hokkien)	寫字房
Wu	Shanghai	書房, 書房間

Derived terms

• 文房四寶 / 文房四宝 (wénfángsìbǎo)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
文	房
ぶん Grade: 1	ぼう Grade: S
on'yomi

Etymology

/bunbau/ → /bunbɔː/ → /bunboː/

From Middle Chinese 文房 (MC mjun bjang, literally “literature, studies, writing + room, area”). Uses the kan'on reading for the first character, so possibly a later borrowing.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ぶんぼー [bùńbóó] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [bɯ̟̃mbo̞ː]

Noun

文(ぶん)房(ぼう) • (bunbō) ^{←ぶんばう (bunbau)?}

1. a study, an office

   Synonym: 書斎 (shosai)

See also

• 文(ぶん)房(ぼう)具(ぐ) (bunbōgu)

Korean

Hanja in this term
文	房

Noun

文房 • (munbang) (hangeul 문방)

1. hanja form^? of 문방 (“study (room)”)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
文	房

Noun

文房

1. chữ Hán form of văn phòng (“office”).