室~

しつ~ · shitsu~ · JLPT N2 · noun

room

室~ — room

🚪 室 = room: 教室 kyoushitsu = teaching room, 寝室 shinshitsu = sleeping room

室 is a suffix meaning room. Add it to the purpose of a room: 会議室 kaigishitsu is a meeting room, and 事務室 jimushitsu is an office.

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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