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
explorer
mountaineer (HK)
travel with whole family; burdened by family
bring the whole family along; burdened by family
tied down by family obligations
tied down by family obligations
photographer
old and respected family
descended from an old family
spendthrift; prodigal; wastrel
mathematician
expert on writing systems
expert on writing systems
writer; man of letters
New Confucianism; modern Confucian school
developing nation; developing economic state
developing nation; developing economic state
expert in a certain field; learned person
astrologer (esp. Daoist)
astrologist (in former times)
astrologer
housekeeper who looks after old people with no children or whose children do not live with them
calligrapher
calligrapher and painter
calligrapher and painter