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
nuclear weapon states
nuclear weapon states
ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations)
ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations)
boss; master (i.e. employer); landlord
to gossip (idiom)
to gossip (idiom)
Lin Chia-Chiao, Chinese American physicist
Lin Chia-Chiao (1916-2013), Chinese-American physicist, astronomer and applied mathematician
nuclear nations
nuclear nations
botanist
botanist
Yang family generals; classic Song war tale
Yang family generals; classic heroic tale
Yang Fujia (1936-), nuclear physicist
Yang Fujia (1936-), nuclear physicist
quarrelsome but loving couple
quarrelsome but loving couple
historian
historian
historian
to sacrifice one's wealth to save the state (idiom)
to sacrifice one's wealth to save the state (idiom)
commoner's house; Bai ethnic group; minka