家

Stroke order

Example sentences

• 我在家。

  Wǒ zài jiā

  I am at home.

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• 大家好。

  Dà jiā hǎo

  Hi, everybody.

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• 我想家。

  Wǒ xiǎng jiā

  I feel homesick.

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• 他不在家。

  Tā bù zài jiā

  He's not home.

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Words containing 家

• 家jiā 1home; 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
• 国家guó jiā 2–1 country; nation; state
• 回家huí jiā 2–1 to return home
• 家里jiā lǐ 1–3 home
• 家人jiā rén 1–2 family member; (old) servant
• 在家zài jiā 4–1 to be at home; (at a workplace) to be in (as opposed to being away on official business 差); (Buddhism etc) to remain a layman (as opposed to becoming a monk or a nun 家)
• 大家dà jiā 4–1 everyone; influential family; great expert
• 家庭jiā tíng 1–2 family; household
• 家长jiā zhǎng 1–3 head of a household; family head; patriarch; parent or guardian of a child
• 作家zuò jiā 4–1 author
• 科学家kē xué jiā 1–2–1scientist
• 全家quán jiā 2–1 whole family