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傢

jiā

stubborn, obstinate, intransigent

Strokes
12
Radical
人
HSK
—
Tone
1

Other readings: xiàng

Simplified form: 家

Stroke order

Our word list and example sentences are in simplified characters. Everything below is for 家, the simplified form of 傢. We do not have a traditional-script corpus to draw the words from, so they are shown as they are written in simplified Chinese.

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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Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

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