家 Traditional: 傢
Pinyin IPA [tɕja˥] Zhuyin
HSK 1 noun 名词 Book 1 · Lesson 5 freq #124
Meaning
- noun 名词 family
'Family' and 'home': 我家有四口人 'my family has four people'; 在家 'at home'. The same character later also serves as a measure word for shops and companies.
- home
- (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
Measure Word
- 个gè
Examples
| 回家。 | huí jiā | Go home. |
| 回家吧。 | huí jiā ba | Go home. |
| 我在家。 | wǒ zài jiā | I'm at home. |
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