国家

Character by character

• 国guó8 strokesHSK 1 traditional 國nation, country, nation-state
• 家jiā10 strokesHSK 1 traditional 傢house, home, residence; family

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 国家. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 家jiāHSK 1

  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

• 大家dà jiāHSK 2

  everyone; influential family; great expert

• 回家huí jiāHSK 1

  to return home

• 家庭jiā tíngHSK 2

  family; household

• 中国zhōng guóHSK 1

  China

• 家里jiā lǐHSK 1

  home

• 专家zhuān jiāHSK 3

  expert; specialist

• 全国quán guóHSK 2

  whole nation; nationwide; countrywide; national

• 国际guó jìHSK 2

  international

• 国guóHSK 1

  country; nation; state; (bound form) national

• 家人jiā rénHSK 1

  family member; (old) servant

• 家伙jiā huoHSK 7

  household dish, implement or furniture; domestic animal; (coll.) guy; chap; weapon

• 人家rén jiāHSK 4

  household; dwelling; family; sb else's house; household business; house of woman's husband-to-be

• 在家zài jiāHSK 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)

• 家长jiā zhǎngHSK 2

  head of a household; family head; patriarch; parent or guardian of a child

• 家族jiā zúHSK 7

  family; clan

• 作家zuò jiāHSK 2

  author

• 国内guó nèiHSK 3

  domestic; internal (to a country); civil

• 科学家kē xué jiāHSK 2

  scientist

• 国王guó wángHSK 6

  king

• 国外guó wàiHSK 1

  abroad; external (affairs); overseas; foreign

• 联合国lián hé guóHSK 3

  United Nations

• 外国wài guóHSK 1

  foreign (country)

• 家具jiā jùHSK 3

  furniture