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

家 stroke order diagram
家 stroke order animation

Words containing 家

Word Meaning
love one’s country as one’s home
to love one’s country like one’s home
(usually derog.) an old hand at sth
(usually derog.) an old hand at sth
home-loving; to feel a strong attachment to home life
to get married (idiom)
to get married and start a career (idiom); to settle down
a strategist
playwright; dramatist
to break into a house for robbery (idiom)
to play house (Tw)
to chit chat; to engage in small talk
critic
investor
tied down by family obligations
tied down by family obligations
Lhalu Wetland National Nature Reserve in Lhasa
Lhalu Wetland National Nature Reserve in Lhasa
dragged down by having a family to feed
dragged down by having a family to feed
conductor (music)
from house to house, one by one
to go from house to house