Stroke order

室 (Kangxi radical 40, 宀+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 十一戈土 (JMIG), four-corner 3010₄, composition ⿱宀至)

• 𠋤, 㗌, 𢯶, 榁, 腟, 𮵞, 𮷂, 𧍱, 𩋡, 鰘, 𭃸, 𦥉, 𡹭, 𮏧, 𰙱, 𬄰, 𨘲

• 房
• 屋

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 285, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7136
• Dae Jaweon: page 563, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 925, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5BA4

Historical forms of the character 室
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *hliɡ): semantic 宀 (“roof”) + phonetic 至 (OC *tjiɡs). Its original meaning is "house, residence". The arrows also indicates that a residence is a place or spot in which somebody stops, like an arrow stuck on the ground, hence the phonetic component also adds part of the meaning. Hence, in accordance to this interpretation, the character can be understood as "a ⼧ roof over ⾄ this exact spot".

The character's modern meaning is "to arrive". Hence, according to 說文 Shuowen, it is analyzed as a 會意 semantic assembly, as he says "至所止 arrive at a specific place" symbolized by the roof.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *k-li(s). Cognate to Tibetan གཞིས (gzhis) < གལྱི (glyi, “ground, foundation, cause; residence, abode”), ས་གཞི (sa gzhi, “earth (opposite to sky)”), གཞིས (gzhis, “native place”), ཡུལ་གཞིས (yul gzhis, “house, estate, property”), གཞིས་སྒྲིལ་བ (gzhis sgril ba, “to move, to change one's abode”). Also cognate to Proto-Tibeto-Burman *mliy, from which Burmese မြေ (mre, “earth, soil”) is derived.

室

1. room (in a building or house); chamber

   兩室一廳／两室一厅  ―  liǎng shì yī tīng  ―  two rooms and one living room

   1. (specifically in addresses) apartment number; flat number
2. (literary, or in compounds) family; household; clan
3. (literary, or in compounds) family member; dependent
   1. (specifically, literary, or in compounds) wife
      1. (obsolete) to take a wife

         • 公父文伯之母欲室文伯。

           From: Guoyu, circa 4^th century BCE

           Gōngfù Wénbó zhī mǔ yù shì Wénbó.

           The mother of Gongfu Wenbo wants her son to get married.

         • 乃令男子年二十而室，女年十五而嫁。

           From: Han Feizi, circa 2^nd century BCE

           Nǎi lìng nánzǐ nián èrshí ér shì, nǚ nián shíwǔ ér jià.

           Then he ordered men to take a wife at twenty and girls to get married at fifteen.

4. (literary, or in compounds) organ (part of an organism) shaped like a chamber; body cavity; ventricle
5. (literary, or in compounds) work unit; administrative unit
6. (literary, or in compounds) court; dynasty
7. (literary, or in compounds) home; house
8. (literary, or in compounds) office
9. (literary, or in compounds) coffin pit; grave
10. (literary, or in compounds) scabbard; sheath
11. (astronomy) Encampment (a Chinese constellation near Pegasus)

• (room):

• (family):

• (family member):

• (coffin pit):

• (scabbard): 鞘 (qiào)

• “室”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Second grade kyōiku kanji)

1. room

• Go-on: しち (shichi)
• Kan-on: しつ (shitsu, Jōyō)
• Kun: むろ (muro, 室, Jōyō)、いえ (ie, 室)^{←いへ (ife, 室, historical)}、さや (saya, 室)、へや (heya, 室)、つま (tsuma, 室)
• Nanori: や (ya)

• (Tokyo) むろ (Odaka – )
• IPA^(key):

室(むろ) • (muro) 

1. cellar; storage chamber
2. an ancient type of pithouse

• 氷室(ひむろ) (himuro)
• 室町(むろまち) (Muromachi)

From Middle Chinese 室 (MC syit).

• (Tokyo) しつ (Odaka – )
• IPA^(key):

室(しつ) • (shitsu) 

1. room

From Middle Chinese 室 (MC syit).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

室

Wikisource

室 (eumhun 집 실 (jip sil))

1. hanja form^? of 실 (“room”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

室: Hán Nôm readings: thất

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