There were two kinds of hip roof.
Hipped chinese roof.
Pavilion roof a hip roof on a square structure where all sides join to form a single peak.
Also known as a pyramid roof also known as a pyramid roof mansard roof a type of hip roof where each side includes two different sloping angles with the lower angle much steeper than the upper angle.
Hipped roof is of the highest level in traditional chinese architecture.
The hip roof is the most commonly used roof style in north america after the gabled roof.
This style of roofing became popular in the united states during the 18 th century in the early georgian period.
The east asian hip and gable roof xiēshān 歇山 in chinese irimoya 入母屋 in japanese paljakjibung 팔작지붕 in korean consists of a hip roof that slopes down on all four sides and integrates a gable on two opposing sides.
In classic chinese building code hip roofs were reserved for public buildings of significance such as meeting halls in royal palaces or the chief prayer hall in big temples.
Double eave hip roof double eave hip roofs were in old days exclusively reserved for major buildings in royal palaces such as hall of supreme harmony in beijing forbidden city.
Such roof has five ridges and four sides all in the form of gentle slope.