家长

Character by character

• 家jiā10 strokesHSK 1 traditional 傢house, home, residence; family
• 长zhǎng4 strokesHSK 2 traditional 長long; length; excel in; leader

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 家长. 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

• 长zhǎngHSK 2

  chief; head; elder; to grow; to develop; to increase; to enhance

• 国家guó jiāHSK 1

  country; nation; state

• 回家huí jiāHSK 1

  to return home

• 家庭jiā tíngHSK 2

  family; household

• 家里jiā lǐHSK 1

  home

• 专家zhuān jiāHSK 3

  expert; specialist

• 长大zhǎng dàHSK 2

  to grow up

• 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

• 成长chéng zhǎngHSK 3

  to mature; to grow; growth

• 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)

• 家族jiā zúHSK 7

  family; clan

• 长期cháng qīHSK 3

  long term; long time; long range (of a forecast)

• 作家zuò jiāHSK 2

  author

• 局长jú zhǎngHSK 5

  bureau chief

• 队长duì zhǎngHSK 2

  captain; team leader

• 校长xiào zhǎngHSK 2

  (college, university) president; headmaster

• 市长shì zhǎngHSK 2

  mayor

• 增长zēng zhǎngHSK 3

  to grow; to increase

• 部长bù zhǎngHSK 3

  head of a (government etc) department; section chief; section head; secretary; minister

• 科学家kē xué jiāHSK 2

  scientist