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
Organization of American States
translator (of writings)
translator (of writings)
fig. don't give up hope
fig. don't give up hope
(dialect) sparrow
(dialect) sparrow
archaeologist
archaeologist
Zang Kejia (1905-2004), Chinese poet
to introduce oneself
to introduce oneself
one of us; sb with whom one is on familiar terms
to have a style of one's own
the whole family
notable former families
notable former families
person who lives and makes a living on a boat; boatman
woman from a respectable family; respectable woman
Royal Society
Royal Society
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
banker (gambling); farmhouse
CR Vanguard or China Resources Vanguard Shop, a supermarket chain in Hong Kong and mainland China