炒房
chǎo fáng
Pinyin

Definition

炒房
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chǎo fáng
  1. to speculate in real estate

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]
炒
chǎo
  1. 1 to sauté
  2. 2 to stir-fry
  3. 3 to speculate
  4. 4 to hype
  5. 5 to fire (sb)
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

Idioms (6)

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)
生炒热卖
shēng chǎo rè mài
  1. 1 to sell while it's still hot (idiom); fig. in a great hurry to publish or sell (and no time to improve the product)
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

这十几年来资金氾滥、利率太低让一堆人炒房，政府对高房价却束手无策。
zhè shíjǐ nián lái zījīn fànlàn 、lìlǜ tài dī ràng yīduīrén chǎofáng ，zhèngfǔ duì gāo fángjià què shùshǒuwúcè 。
In the last decade or two there has been an inundation of capital, and low interest rates have led to a lot of people speculating in real estate. So the government is powerless against high house prices.
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这还用猜？地球人都知道。温州人里面，十个有九个就是炒房客。温州炒房团开到哪儿，哪儿的房价就疯涨。害得我们买不起房的罪魁祸首就是他们。连老外都怕他们三分。
zhè hái yòng cāi ？dìqiúrén dōu zhīdào 。Wēnzhōurén lǐmiàn ，shí gè yǒu jiǔ gè jiùshì chǎofángkè 。Wēnzhōu chǎofángtuán kāi dào nǎr ，nǎr de fángjià jiù fēngzhǎng 。hài de wǒmen mǎibuqǐ fáng de zuìkuíhuòshǒu jiùshì tāmen 。lián lǎowài dōu pà tāmen sānfēn 。
Do you even need to guess? The whole world knows - nine out of ten Wenzhounese are real estate developers. Wherever Wenzhounese real estate groups open, the housing prices skyrocket. Wenzhounese are the culprits behind us being unable to afford homes. Even foreigners are a little afraid of them.
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你们说，他老丈人会不会就是个炒房客？
nǐmen shuō ，tā lǎozhàngren huì bùhuì jiùshì ge chǎofángkè ？
Hey, do you guys think his father-in-law is a real estate developer?
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我听说有些暴发户，前段时间大肆炒房，将上海的房价炒得很高，是真的吗？
wǒ tīngshuō yǒuxiē bàofāhù ，qiánduànshíjiān dàsì chǎofáng ，jiāng Shànghǎi de fángjià chǎo de hěn gāo ，shì zhēnde ma ？
I hear there are some nouveaux riches who were doing large-scale real estate speculation recently. They're making Shanghai's housing prices really high. Is that true?
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集资建房能不能成功还是个未知数。我倒觉得，政府想办法多开发点经济适用房才是解决问题的根本途径。市场供求平衡了，投机炒房的现象自然会减少，房地产市场也会逐渐回归理性。
jízī jiànfáng néngbunéng chénggōng hái shì ge wèizhīshù 。wǒ dào juéde ，zhèngfǔ xiǎng bànfǎ duō kāifā diǎn jīngjìshìyòngfáng cái shì jiějué wèntí de gēnběn tújìng 。shìchǎng gōngqiú pínghéng le ，tóujī chǎofáng de xiànxiàng zìrán huì jiǎnshǎo ，fángdìchǎnshìchǎng yě huì zhújiàn huíguī lǐxìng 。
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