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
a happy home makes everything go well
a peaceful home brings success in everything
understood by everyone (idiom); well known
(polite) my father
(polite) my father
home; homeland
home grown; cultivated
my sister
(polite) my older sister
(polite) father's sisters
(old) female servants or concubines in homes of the rich
(dialect) husband's mother
(dialect) mother-in-law; (house)wife
wife (old)
wife (old)
(polite) my sister-in-law
family; household
every household; each and every family (idiom)
Every family goes through its problems. (idiom)
Every family goes through its problems. (idiom)
to play house (Tw)
furniture mall; furniture store
furniture mall; furniture store
family member; (family) dependent
nothing out of the ordinary; common occurrence