(jiā) - home, family, household in Mandarin
jiāTraditional: 家
Translation
home, family, household
Word origin
家 (jiā, 'home, family') is a compound: 宀 (the roof radical) over 豕 (shǐ, 'pig'). The traditional reading sees a domestic animal kept under one roof, standing for the household.
- Origin
- compound
- Root
- 宀 (roof radical) + 豕 (shǐ, pig)
Stroke order
家
Examples
。
I want to go home.
口。
My family has four members.
。
He is not at home.
口。
There is a cat outside my home.
。
After work I head straight home.
家 (jiā) - home, family, household.
Appears in 10 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 家.
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