住房
zhù fáng · HSK 2
housing
🏠 住 (reside) + 房 (room) = housing
住 means to live/reside and 房 means room or building. Together 住房 literally combines 'reside' + 'room' to mean housing or living quarters.
住 — person radical 亻 + 主 (master/zhǔ, phonetic)
住 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The left side 亻 (person) gives the meaning—something a person does—while 主 supplies the sound, originally 'zhǔ' (master, a lamp standing in place). Together they suggest a person staying put, yielding the senses 'to live, dwell, reside, stop'.