家
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; CL:個|个[ge4]
10 strokes
Dict coverage rank #27 U+5BB6
How 家 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
宀 (semantic, “roof”) + 豕 (phonetic, shǐ)
components: 宀 豕
How to remember it
house · Heisig RSH #525
house + sow
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 豕
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 豕 (shǐ) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 豕 sound component | shǐ | pig, boar |
| 逐 | zhú | to pursue; to expel; step by step |
| 遂 | suì | to fail; to follow, to comply with |
Words containing 家
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 一家子 | yī jiā zi | the whole family |
| 一家人 | yī jiā rén | the whole family; (lit. and fig.) members of the same family |
| 大家 | dà jiā | everyone; influential family; great expert |
| 家子 | jiā zi | household; family |
| 人家 | rén jiā | household; dwelling; family; sb else's house; household business; house of woman's husband… |
| 人家 | rén jia | other people; sb else; he, she or they; I, me (referring to oneself as "one" or "people") |
| 家人 | jiā rén | family member; (old) servant |
| 一家 | yī jiā | the whole family; the same family; the family ... (when preceded by a family name); group |
| 国家 | guó jiā | country; nation; state |
| 自家人 | zì jiā rén | sb with whom one is on familiar terms; sb from the same place (same house, same town etc);… |
| 头家 | tóu jiā | organizer of a gambling party who takes a cut of the winnings; banker (gambling); precedin… |
| 家儿 | jiā ér | (old) child, particularly referring to the son who resembles his father |
| 小家子气 | xiǎo jiā zi qì | petty; small-minded |
| 家马 | jiā mǎ | domestic horse |
| 化学家 | huà xué jiā | chemist |
| 家小 | jiā xiǎo | wife and children; wife |
| 自家 | zì jiā | oneself; one's own family |
| 出家人 | chū jiā rén | monk; nun (Buddhist or Daoist) |
| 天文学家 | tiān wén xué jiā | astronomer |
| 生物学家 | shēng wù xué jiā | biologist |