Chinese symbol for “indoor”
室内
shì nèi
Traditional: 室內
indoor
The closest CC-CEDICT match for indoor is 室内 (shì nèi), defined as: indoor.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “indoor”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 室内.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 办公室 (辦公室) | bàn gōng shì | office; business premises |
| 实验室 (實驗室) | shí yàn shì | laboratory; 间 (jiān) |
| 教室 | jiào shì | classroom; 间 (jiān) |
| 工作室 | gōng zuò shì | studio; workshop |
| 浴室 | yù shì | bathroom; shower room (间 (jiān)); bathhouse |
| 内容 (內容) | nèi róng | content; substance; details; 项 (xiàng) |
| 国内 (國內) | guó nèi | domestic; internal (to a country) |
| 内部 (內部) | nèi bù | interior; inside (part, section) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “indoor”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.