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
restaurant; tavern; (old) wineshop
player whose turn comes next (in a game); next one
every family (idiom)
family property; patrimony
one's wife and children
family financial circumstances
family-like close relationship (idiom)
a revolutionary
group photo of whole family
family background
family property; family wealth
to be the master of one's own affairs
expert; connoisseur
switch to a job one was not trained for
fig. to be very familiar with a matter
to settle; to make one's home in a place
fig. very poor
the rules and discipline that apply within a family
theologian
mariner; seafarer
military strategists; experts in warfare
(polite) my elder brother
home; house; residence
family and consumer science
a household's economic situation; family livelihood