房屋
fángwū · HSK 3
house
🏠 房屋 = 房 (room) + 屋 (house) — a house made of rooms
房 fáng means room or chamber; 屋 wū means house or dwelling. Together they form the generic word for a building or house. Both characters share the 尸 (corpse/shelter) radical on top, marking covered spaces.
屋 — corpse 尸 + reach/arrive 至
屋 originally depicted a place where one arrives (至) to rest under a roof, with 尸 here representing a covering or dwelling rather than a corpse. The character came to mean 'house' or 'room'. Today it commonly refers to a house or a room within a building.