文房

文房

1. (formal) study (room)
2. (archaic) department in charge of official documents and correspondence
3. (Vietnam) office

In Chinese, the common word for study (as in a room designated for reading or writing) is 書房／书房 (shūfáng); its 雅稱／雅称 (yǎchēng, “elegant name”) is 書齋／书斋 (shūzhāi) or 文房 (wénfáng).

• (study):

/bunbau/ → /bunbɔː/ → /bunboː/

From Middle Chinese 文房 (MC mjun bjang, literally “literature, studies, writing + room, area”). Uses the kan'on reading for the first character, so possibly a later borrowing.

• (Tokyo) ぶんぼー [bùńbóó] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [bɯ̟̃mbo̞ː]

文(ぶん)房(ぼう) • (bunbō) ^{←ぶんばう (bunbau)?}

1. a study, an office

   Synonym: 書斎 (shosai)

• 文(ぶん)房(ぼう)具(ぐ) (bunbōgu)

文房 • (munbang) (hangeul 문방)

1. hanja form^? of 문방 (“study (room)”)

文房

1. chữ Hán form of văn phòng (“office”)