家

home, family

No. 36 most used · 0.24% of everyday spoken Chinese: about 1 character in every 413.

How it's built

• 宀roof
• 豕pig

A way to remember it

A pig (豕) under a roof (宀): a household with something to its name.

Words

• 大家

  dà jiā

  everyone; influential family; great expert
• 回家

  huí jiā

  to return home
• 家伙

  jiā huo

  household dish, implement or furniture; domestic animal; (coll.) guy
• 国家

  guó jiā

  country; nation; state
• 家里

  jiā lǐ

  home
• 家人

  jiā rén

  family member; (old) servant

Sentences

• 他当时一个人在家。

  tā dāng shí yí ge rén zài jiā

  He was home alone at the time.
• 他很快就会回家的。

  tā hěn kuài jiù huì huí jiā de

  He came home soon.
• 他想成为一名作家。

  tā xiǎng chéng wéi yì míng zuò jiā

  He wants to become a writer.
• 他是一个生物学家。

  tā shì yí ge shēng wù xué jiā

  He is a biologist.

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How often characters are written: wordfreq by Robyn Speer, CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from Google Books Ngrams and SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and others. Meanings: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences: Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. How often they're said: FrequencyWords and OPUS, from OpenSubtitles.