下房 xiàfáng servants' quarters Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 下房 xiàfáng servants' quarters (literary) rooms or quarters used by servants or maids in olden times side room a room on either side of the courtyard in a traditional Chinese house; equivalent to 厢房 xiāngfáng [humble palace] (archaic) a humble term used by an emperor to refer to his own palace; used to show modesty towards heaven to have sexual intercourse (literary) to engage in sexual relations Frequency Written text 0.182 per million Cross-References Same as 厢房 xiāngfáng配房 pèifáng Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
下房 xiàfáng servants' quarters (literary) rooms or quarters used by servants or maids in olden times side room a room on either side of the courtyard in a traditional Chinese house; equivalent to 厢房 xiāngfáng [humble palace] (archaic) a humble term used by an emperor to refer to his own palace; used to show modesty towards heaven to have sexual intercourse (literary) to engage in sexual relations Frequency Written text 0.182 per million Cross-References Same as 厢房 xiāngfáng配房 pèifáng Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
