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
Xiangjiaba Dam, Yunnan, site of a hydropower station
the Zhou family (household, firm etc)
I; me; my
we; our house; my home
I; me, used by a widowed empress
philosopher
Four Great Calligraphers of early Tang
Eight great Tang–Song prose writers
area in Beichuan county Sichuan
Tang Jiaxuan (1938-), politician and diplomat
stray dog (idiom)
single parent family
single parent family
to feel at home anywhere
to feel at home anywhere
(of a wife) to return to her parental home
to be fired; (coll.) (Tw) to get sacked
country; nation; state
Grade One State protected (species)
Grade One State protected (species)
president of a country; esp. of China
president of a country; China’s president
nationalism; statism