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厨房chú fángkitchen

HSK 4word

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厨房 (chú fáng) means "kitchen," the room where food is cooked. It is often used with 在 to say where someone is cooking, as in 在厨房做饭 (to cook in the kitchen), and CEDICT gives 间 as its measure word, as in 一间厨房 (a kitchen).

What does 厨房 mean?

  1. 1.

    kitchennoun

What do the characters in 厨房 mean?

  • 厨kitchen
  • 房room

How do you use 厨房?

厨房 often follows 在 to say where cooking happens, and can take the measure word 间.

What are some examples of 厨房 in a sentence?

  1. HSK 1

    妈妈在厨房做饭。

    Māma zài chúfáng zuòfàn.

    Mom is cooking in the kitchen.

  2. HSK 1

    我家的厨房不太大。

    Wǒ jiā de chúfáng bú tài dà.

    The kitchen in my home isn't very big.

  3. HSK 3

    你把碗放到厨房去吧。

    Nǐ bǎ wǎn fàng dào chúfáng qù ba.

    Put the bowls in the kitchen.

How is 厨房 used in a conversation?

  1. Speaker A:

    你在做什么？

    Nǐ zài zuò shénme?

    What are you doing?

  2. Speaker B:

    我在厨房做晚饭，你饿了吗？

    Wǒ zài chúfáng zuò wǎnfàn, nǐ è le ma?

    I'm making dinner in the kitchen; are you hungry?

  3. Speaker A:

    有点儿饿，我能帮你吗？

    Yǒudiǎnr è, wǒ néng bāng nǐ ma?

    A little; can I help you?

  4. Speaker B:

    好啊，你帮我洗一下菜。

    Hǎo a, nǐ bāng wǒ xǐ yíxià cài.

    Sure, help me wash the vegetables.

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English glosses on this page are adapted from CC-CEDICT, published by MDBG (snapshot 2026-10-23), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Glosses were edited for learners.