家

jiā · jie · jia · gū

used in and

Radical: 宀 Strokes: 10

Structure: Top small, bottom largeFrequency: Most common

Same radical

安定客官实密室寒容守宝宿

Same radical

安定客官实密室寒容守宝宿宫宁宗

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Character Decomposition

家=宀+豕

Etymology

roof

Meanings

used in and

jiā

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

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Words with 家 1456 total

a member of the same clan · a distant relative with the same family name本家běn jiā brothel娼家chāng jiā (old) shopkeeper; innkeeper · (dialect) shop; store店家diàn jiā the School of the Military, one of the Hundred Schools of Thought of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC)兵家Bīng jiā perfect · excellent · brought to the utmost degree到家dào jiā to pass on through the generations传家chuán jiā husband's mother阿家ā gū to move house; to relocate · to remove (sth)搬家bān jiā notable former families旧家jiù jiā Buddhism · Buddhist佛家Fó jiā master (i.e. employer) · landlord · boss东家dōng jiā I, me (self-referring by a widowed empress etc, used in historical novels and operas)哀家āi jiā

Idioms with 家 235 total

to go from house to house挨家挨户āi jiā āi hù to love one's country as one's own family (praise for a virtuous ruler)爱国如家ài guó rú jiā stable household, established profession (idiom); settled and comfortably off安家立业ān jiā lì yè to make one's home in a place · to settle安家落户ān jiā luò hù (idiom) to build up from nothing; to start from scratch白手起家bái shǒu qǐ jiā a hundred flowers bloom, a hundred schools of thought contend (idiom); refers to the classical philosophic schools of the Warring States period 475-221 BC, but adopted for Mao's campaign of 1956百花齐放，百家争鸣bǎi huā qí fàng , bǎi jiā zhēng míng