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jia̅ = ji + a1: 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]

Mnemonic

Mnemonic symbol: a framed "home sweet home" picture.

The swine (豕) graduated and wearing a graduation cap (宀), it came home to the ashram. In front of it (a1), Joan of Arc (ji) welcomes the swine and hugs it. To welcome her dear swine, she put a gigantic home sweet home (家) picture in front of the ashram.

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All translations for 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]
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家 character breakdown

"roof" radical (Kangxi radical 40), occurring in 家, 定, 安 etc, referred to as 寶蓋|宝盖[bao3 gai4]
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Characters with 家 as component

to sow grain / (farm) crop
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(of a woman) to marry / to marry off a daughter / to shift (blame etc)
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cloth (archaic), esp. of southern ethnic groups
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Words with 家

the whole family / the same family / the family ... (when preceded by a family name) / group
the whole family
family influential for generations / aristocratic family
household / the whole family
preceding player (in a game)
player whose turn comes next (in a game) / next one / my humble home
destiny will make enemies meet (idiom) / (often said about lovers who have a disagreement)
a person who doesn't manage a household would not be aware how expensive it is (idiom)
family with hereditary emoluments
to lose (face) utterly
PRC State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA)
master of the house / family head
lit. family members speak frankly with one another, not courteously, as if they were from two different families (idiom) / fig. people don't need to be deferential when they ask a family member for help / people from the same family should stick together (and good friends likewise)
double income family who have pets rather than children (see also 丁克[ding1 ke4])
lit. village of three households / name of essay column in Beijing newspaper from 1961-1966, written by Deng Tuo 鄧拓|邓拓, Wu Han 吳晗|吴晗 and Liao Mosha 廖沫沙, criticized as anti-party during the Cultural Revolution
people who don't belong together, don't get to live together (idiom) / marriages are predestined / people marry because they share common traits

Sentences with 家

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