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家伙

jiā huo 1–5

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

HSK level
HSK 7
HSK 2.0 level 6 · HSK 3.0 level 7
Characters
2
家 · 伙
Syllables
2
jiā huo
Frequency
Common
corpus count 1,757

Part of speech: n

Character by character

  • 家jiā10 strokesHSK 1 traditional 傢house, home, residence; family
  • 伙huǒ6 strokesHSK 4 traditional 夥companion, colleague; utensils

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

Example sentences

  • 这家伙死了。

    Zhè jiā huo sǐ le

    This guy is dead.

  • 那家伙是谁？

    Nà jiā huo shì shéi

    Who's that guy?

  • 那些家伙是谁？

    Nà xiē jiā huo shì shéi

    Who are those guys?

  • 小家伙，你在看什么？

    Xiǎo jiā huo nǐ zài kàn shén me

    What are you looking at, little one?

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

Words with the same characters

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

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