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
Wujiagang District in Yichang, Hubei
Wujiagang district of Yichang city yí chāng shì, Hubei
burglar; housebreaker
layman; layperson; original home of a monk
guard home, defend the country (idiom); national defense
economical; thrifty
partner; lover
partner; lover
variant of jiā jù
to pass on through the generations
to pass on through the generations
family heirloom
to lose a fortune; to ruin a family
to lose a fortune; to ruin a family
to lose a family fortune (idiom)
Confucian thoughts; the thinking of the Confucian school
the Four Great Yuan dramatists
the four great poets of the Yuan dynasty
four great poets of the Yuan dynasty
a son won't abandon his mother for being ugly, just as a dog won't abandon its owner for being poor (proverb)
a son won't abandon his mother for being ugly, just as a dog won't abandon its owner for being poor (proverb)
civil service
civil service
Six pre-Qin schools of philosophy
Four Great Painters of the Six Dynasties, namely: Cao Buxing cáo bù xīng, Gu Kaizhi gù kǎi zhī, Lu Tanwei lù tàn wēi and Zhang Sengyou zhāng sēng yóu