家

傢traditional

HSK 1#89 by frequencyradical 宀

jiā["n","q"]

home; family; noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian; (polite) my (sister, uncle etc); classifier for families or businesses; refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China

jiā

used in 傢伙|家伙[jia1 huo5] and 傢俱|家俱[jia1 ju4]

Measure word: 个

Examples

家！

Home!

我在家。

I am at home.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.