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- Measure word
- 个
Stroke order
家 is written in 10 strokes.
- 家
家 as a symbol
Simplified and traditional are the same: 家
As a single character: home; family; household.
A roof over a pig: phono-semantic, semantic 宀 ('roof') plus a phonetic element meaning 'male pig' — a dwelling named for the animal kept inside it.
Senses
- home
- family
- (polite) my (sister, uncle etc)
- classifier for families or businesses
- refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China
- noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian
Example sentences
- 我在家看电视。Wǒ zài jiā kàn diànshì.I watch TV at home.
- 他的家很大。Tā de jiā hěn dà.His home is very big.
Related words
家 is pronounced jiā and means “home”.