家 jiā▶ rumah

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

1. home
2. family
3. (polite) my (sister, uncle etc)
4. classifier for families or businesses
5. refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China
6. 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

• 大家semua orang
• 国家Negara
• 作家penulis
• 家具furnitur
• 专家ahli
• 家务Pekerjaan rumah

家 is pronounced jiā and means “rumah”. You will meet it in HSK 1, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 家 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.