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
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- 第二回 Chapter 113 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 2
- 卷二十五下 郊祀志 Volume 25b: Treatise on Sacrifices 2 Book of Han 漢書 — count: 1
- 卷二十七 志第七: 禮儀七 Volume 27 Treatises 7: Rites 7 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — 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
- 第三十回 Chapter 30 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 1
- 第二回 Chapter 43 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 1
- 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
- 《封禪書》 Religious sacrificial ceremonies Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 1
- 第二回 Chapter 65 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 1
Collocations
- 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
- 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