家
Meanings
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- 1.home
- 2.family
- 3.(polite) my (sister, uncle etc)
- 4.classifier for families or businesses
- 5.refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China
- 6.noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian
- 7.CL:个[gè]
- 1.used in 家伙[jiā huo] and 家俱[jiā jù]
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Wiktionary
- 1.home
- 2.family; household (Classifier: 頭／头 c)
- 3.my
- 4.domesticated; domestic
- 5.Classifier for families, businesses and companies.
- 6.school of thought; philosophical school
- 7.fief of ministers or senior officials
- 8.Suffix denoting a person with a certain occupation or social standing. -er
- 9.Suffix denoting specialist in a certain activity or field. -ist; -er
- 10.party; side
- 11.Suffix used after a noun to specify a type of person.
- 12.a surname
- 13.only used in 家己 (ka-kī)
- 14.only used in 私家
- 15.only used in 大家 (dàgū)
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Etymology
Oracle bone script: Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *kraː): semantic 宀 (“roof”) + phonetic 𢑓 (xiá, “male pig”). An archaic variant closer to the original drawing is 𡩀. See 𢑓 (xiá) for more. Similar to 冡. Later the phonetic component have been corrupted to 豕, so Shuowen Jiezi erroneously analyzed it as Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *kraː): semantic 宀 (“roof”) + abbreviated phonetic 豭 (OC *kraː, “pig”). All etymologies based on the modern version of the phonetic component (豕) are folk etymologies since they miss the original component (𢑓). Cognate with Tibetan མཁར (mkhar, “castle; house”) (Schuessler, 2007). 嫁 (OC *kraːs, “to give a girl in marriage”) is the exoactive of 家 (OC *kraː, “house; household; family”).
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
我很想家。
I was so homesick.
我是個輸家。
I'm a loser.
他刚回到家。
He just got home.
我有一个家。
I have a home.
我得留在家。
I have to stay home.
这是他们家。
This is their house.
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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