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
civil nuclear power
civil nuclear power
a climatologist
a climatologist
hydraulic engineer; water manager
Sha Jia Bang, a famous revolutionary opera
Yanhe Tujia autonomous county in Guizhou
Yanhe Tujia Autonomous County, Guizhou
jurist; member of the pre-Han legalist school
Legalist School of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) founded by Han Fei hán fēi and Li Si lǐ sī, later adopted by Shang Yang shāng yāng whose reforms helped establish the supremacy of the Qin Dynasty qīn dài (221-207 BC)
Hung Gar Kung Fu - Martial Art; the Hong family (household)
activist
rogue state
rogue state
to drift from place to place (idiom)
Gulf states; nations of the Persian Gulf
Gulf states; nations of the Persian Gulf
even an honest and upright official will have difficulty resolving a family dispute (proverb)
even an honest and upright official will have difficulty resolving a family dispute (proverb)
wife
wife
Xiangxi Tujia and Miao autonomous prefecture
Wen Jiabao (1942-), Premier of PRC from 2003-2013
Wen Jiabao (1942-), Premier of PRC from 2003-2013
Tengjia township in Rongcheng róng chéng, Weihai wēi hǎi, Shandong