jiā

home; family; classifier for families or businesses

Character data

HSK 1
Frequency 56th character
Radical ⼧ (40.7)
Strokes 10
Index # 2099

Definitions

家 jiā
  1. 1. home
  2. 2. family
  3. 3. classifier for families or businesses
  4. 4. noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian
  5. 5. (polite) my (sister, uncle etc)
  6. 6. refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China
  7. 7. see jiā huo
  8. 8. CL

Stroke order

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Words containing 家

Word Meaning
everyone; great expert; influential family
country; nation; state
author
furniture
family; household
expert; specialist
hometown; native place
housework; household duties
(coll.) guy; chap; weapon
family; household; sb else's house
other people; sb else; he, she or they
family member; (family) dependent
understood by everyone (idiom); well known
the daily life of a family
Confucian school, founded by Confucius kǒng zǐ (551-479 BC) and Mencius mèng zǐ (c. 372-c. 289 BC)
to return home
home
(one's) family; household
family; clan
artist
scientist
parent or guardian of a child; head of a household
the whole family
to move house; removal
whole family
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