买房
mǎi fáng
Pinyin

Definition

买房
 - 
mǎi fáng
  1. to buy a house

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

房
Fáng
  1. 1 surname Fang
房子
fáng zi
  1. 1 house
  2. 2 building (single- or two-story)
  3. 3 apartment
  4. 4 room
  5. 5 CL:棟|栋[dòng],幢[zhuàng],座[zuò],套[tào],間|间[jiān]
房间
fáng jiān
  1. 1 room
  2. 2 CL:間|间[jiān],個|个[gè]
乳房
rǔ fáng
  1. 1 breast
  2. 2 udder
二手房
èr shǒu fáng
  1. 1 second-hand house
  2. 2 house acquired indirectly through a middle-man
住房
zhù fáng
  1. 1 housing
健身房
jiàn shēn fáng
  1. 1 gym
  2. 2 gymnasium
套房
tào fáng
  1. 1 suite
  2. 2 apartment
  3. 3 flat
厨房
chú fáng
  1. 1 kitchen
  2. 2 CL:間|间[jiān]
心房
xīn fáng
  1. 1 heart (as the seat of emotions)
  2. 2 cardiac atrium
房价
fáng jià
  1. 1 house price
  2. 2 cost of housing
房地产
fáng dì chǎn
  1. 1 real estate
房屋
fáng wū
  1. 1 house
  2. 2 building
  3. 3 CL:所[suǒ],套[tào]
房东
fáng dōng
  1. 1 landlord
房产
fáng chǎn
  1. 1 real estate
  2. 2 the property market (e.g. houses)
房租
fáng zū
  1. 1 rent for a room or house
房贷
fáng dài
  1. 1 home loan
房门
fáng mén
  1. 1 door of a room
新房
xīn fáng
  1. 1 brand new house
  2. 2 bridal chamber
书房
shū fáng
  1. 1 study (room)
  2. 2 studio
  3. 3 CL:間|间[jiān]

Idioms (5)

三天不打，上房揭瓦
sān tiān bù dǎ , shàng fáng jiē wǎ
  1. 1 three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof to rip the tiles (idiom)
  2. 2 spare the rod, spoil the child
宠擅专房
chǒng shàn zhuān fáng
  1. 1 an especially favored concubine (idiom)
文房四宝
wén fáng sì bǎo
  1. 1 Four Treasures of the Study, namely 筆|笔[bǐ], 墨[mò], 紙|纸[zhǐ] and 硯|砚[yàn]
  2. 2 the essentials of calligraphy and scholarship (idiom)
洞房花烛
dòng fáng huā zhú
  1. 1 bridal room and ornamented candles
  2. 2 wedding festivities (idiom)
蹿房越脊
cuān fáng yuè jǐ
  1. 1 lit. to leap the house and cross the roofridge (idiom); dashing over rooftops (of robbers and pursuing knight-errant 俠客|侠客 in fiction)

Sample Sentences

是啊，我们手机里都下载了支付宝，也都有微信，从早餐开始，小到去菜市场买商贩的青菜，大到买房，只要有支付宝就可以直接转账付款完成交易。
shì a ，wǒmen shǒujī lǐ dōu xiàzǎi le Zhīfùbǎo ，yě dōu yǒu wēixìn ，cóng zǎocān kāishǐ ，xiǎo dào qù càishìchǎng mǎi shāngfàn de qīngcài ，dà dào mǎifáng ，zhǐyào yǒu Zhīfùbǎo jiù kěyǐ zhíjiē zhuǎnzhàng fùkuǎn wánchéng jiāoyì 。
Yes. We have all downloaded Alipay and we all have WeChat too. Starting from breakfast, from little things like buying green vegetables from vendors at the fruit and vegetable market, to big things like buying housing, you can transfer funds on Alipay to complete the transactions.
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房价贵又不是一天两天的事了，倒是你，怎么突然兴起买房的念头？
fángjià guì yòu bù shì yītiān liǎngtiān de shì le ，dàoshì nǐ ，zěnme tūrán xīngqǐ mǎifáng de niàntou ？
It's not like house prices haven't been like this for a while. You on the other hand... Why has it suddenly occurred to you to buy a house now?
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我懂，去年我也稍微看了一下房子，看了几间以后，就完全打消买房的想法了。
wǒ dǒng ，qùnián wǒ yě shāowēi kàn le yīxià fángzi ，kàn le jǐ jiān yǐhòu ，jiù wánquán dǎxiāo mǎifáng de xiǎngfǎ le 。
I understand, I looked at a few houses last year. After viewing a few, I completely gave up on the idea of buying a house.
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我也听说老赵的儿子相当争气，不过是不是准备讨媳妇了，所以买车买房？
wǒ yě tīngshuō Lǎo Zhào de érzi xiāngdāng zhēngqì ，bùguò shì bùshì zhǔnbèi tǎo xífù le ，suǒyǐ mǎichē mǎifáng ？
I've heard that Zhao's son really makes his family proud. But might it be that he is preparing to get married, that's why he's got a house?
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好不容易，各种求爷爷告奶奶，找到了工作，过去分房子的政策也取消了，得自己买房了。
hǎobùróngyì ，gèzhǒng qiúyéyegàonǎinai ，zhǎodào le gōngzuò ，guòqù fēn fángzi de zhèngcè yě qǔxiāo le ，děi zìjǐ mǎifáng le 。
It was very difficult, you had to resort to begging around town. And when you found a job, the previous housing allotment policy had also been cancelled, so you had to buy your own house.
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可不是吗？准备买房了，房价又大涨，咱们一个个的又都成了贷款买房的房奴。
kěbushì ma ？zhǔnbèi mǎifáng le ，fángjià yòu dà zhǎng ，zánmen yīgègè de yòu dōu chéng le dàikuǎn mǎifáng de fángnú 。
That's exactly right! And when we were gearing up to buy houses, house prices soared again, so one by one we became slaves to mortgages.
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你在看房地产广告啊？想买房吗？
nǐ zài kàn fángdìchǎn guǎnggào ā ？xiǎng mǎifáng ma ？
Are you looking at property ads? Do you want to buy a house?
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存钱，炒股，买房，买基金，买黄金......
cúnqián ，chǎogǔ ，mǎifáng ，mǎi jījīn ，mǎi huángjīn ......
to save money, to buy stocks, to buy a house, to buy mutual funds, to buy gold
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我早就说了，房价不会跌的，尤其是大城市。刚需多厉害啊，有多少像我们这样的人等着买房。
wǒ zǎo jiù shuō le ，fángjià bùhuì diē de ，yóuqí shì dàchéngshì 。gāngxū duō lìhai a ，yǒu duōshao xiàng wǒmen zhèyàng de rén děng zhe mǎifáng 。
I've said it before. Housing prices won't fall, especially in big cities. Rigid demands are super strong. There are a number of people like us waiting to buy a home.
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房价就是被整天想着买房的人推高的。如果大家都不买，齐心协力和政府一起挤出房价的泡沫，房价才能降下来。
fángjià jiùshì bèi zhěngtiān xiǎng zhe mǎifáng de rén tuī gāo de 。rúguǒ dàjiā dōu bù mǎi ，qíxīnxiélì hé zhèngfǔ yīqǐ jǐ chū fángjià de pàomò ，fángjià cáinéng jiàngxialai 。
Housing prices are being pushed higher by people thinking about buying houses all day long. If everyone doesn't buy them, then by working together with the government, we can deflate the bubble and housing prices can come down.
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