正房

Chinese

		just (right); main; upright just (right); main; upright; straight; correct; principle; Chinese 1st month of year	house
trad. (正房)		正	房
simp. #(正房)		正	房

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhèngfáng

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄥˋ ㄈㄤˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zing³ fong^4-2
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): zia⁴ bang² / ziann⁴ bang²
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵tsen-vaon

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhèngfáng
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄥˋ ㄈㄤˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhèngfáng
    • Wade–Giles: chêng⁴-fang²
    • Yale: jèng-fáng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jenqfarng
    • Palladius: чжэнфан (čžɛnfan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂɤŋ⁵¹ fɑŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zing³ fong^4-2
    • Yale: jing fóng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzing³ fong^4-2
    • Guangdong Romanization: jing³ fong^4-2
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɪŋ³³ fɔːŋ²¹⁻³⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: zia⁴ bang² [Phonetic: zia⁴ ang²]
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: cia̍ⁿ-báng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sia⁴² ^(p-)aŋ¹³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: ziann⁴ bang² [Phonetic: ziann¹ wang²]
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sĩã⁴²⁻⁵⁵ ^(p-)βaŋ²⁴/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁵tsen-vaon
    • MiniDict: tsen^去 vaon
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²tsen-vaan
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡sən³³ vɑ̃⁴⁴/

Noun

正房

1. principal rooms in a quadrangle, usually facing south
2. (historical) one's legal wife

Synonyms

• (principal room): 正屋 (zhèngwū); (Teochew) 大房 (dàfáng)
• (legal wife):

Dialectal synonyms of 大老婆 (“official wife; primary wife”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		正室, 正房, 正妻, 嫡妻, 正室, 正配, 元配, 髮妻
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	大婆兒, 大娘們兒
	Taiwan	大老婆
	Singapore	大老婆
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	大婆子
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	大婆兒, 大老婆
	Xi'an	大老婆
	Xuzhou	大婆兒, 大婆子, 大老婆
Lanyin Mandarin	Lanzhou	大老婆
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	大老婆, 大婆子
	Liuzhou	大婆
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	大老婆
Cantonese	Guangzhou	大婆
	Hong Kong	大婆
	Dongguan	大婆
Gan	Nanchang	大老婆
Hakka	Meixian	大婆
Huizhou	Jixi	大老嫗
Jin	Xinzhou	大婆子
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	大婆
Southern Min	Xiamen	大某
	Quanzhou	大某
	Jinjiang	大某
	Yongchun	大某
	Zhangzhou	大某, 大姐
	Singapore (Hokkien)	大某
	Manila (Hokkien)	大某
	Leizhou	大娘
Puxian Min	Putian	大房, 正房
	Xianyou	大房, 正房
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	大婆
Wu	Shanghai (Chongming)	大老官
	Suzhou	大老媽
	Hangzhou	大老婆
	Wenzhou	正娘

References

• 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “正房”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 580.