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
the four great Song calligraphy masters
family of government officials
government; official; emperor
IKEA, Swedish furniture retailer
Hakka ethnic group, a subgroup of the Han that in the 13th century migrated from northern China to the south
Hakka people
Hakka dialect
Hakka dialect
Hakka (a Chinese dialect)
Hakka (a Chinese dialect)
to be of humble origin (idiom)
head of a household
domestic helper
domestic helper
handed down in a family; family traditions
handed down in a family; family traditions
family history (as a literary genre)
family history (as a literary genre)
servant
son; child who takes after his father
child; son who looks like his father
(bird species of China) common myna (Acridotheres tristis)
your esteemed father; (polite) my father; head of a family
housework; household duties
(polite) my uncle (father's younger brother)