浴室

yūshì · HSK 7

bathroom

浴室 — bathroom

🛁🚿 浴室 = bathe (浴) + room (室) = bathroom

浴 carries the water radical 氵and means to bathe; 室 means room or chamber. Put them together and you get the room where you bathe.

室 — roof 宀 + arrive 至
A semantic compound: 宀 (roof/house) over 至 (to arrive). The image is a place one arrives at and stays in — an inner room. From 'inner chamber' the meaning broadened to 'room' generally, and by extension to specialized rooms like an office or laboratory.

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