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
business; merchant; enterprise
the national team
household electric appliance; abbr. for jiā yòng diàn qì
observer; The Observer (UK newspaper)
PRC Ministry of State Security
sculptor
photographer
theorist; theoretician
economist
the public; the state; society
historian
renowned expert; master (of an art or craft)
husband's family
family scandal; skeleton in the closet
writer; man of letters
palaeontologist; paleobiologist
family destroyed; lose everything and loved ones
doer; sb who gets things done
industrialist
activist
banker; financier
(polite) my mother
spendthrift; prodigal; wastrel
developed nation
the whole family