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
household / the whole family
preceding player (in a game)
(of a city etc) ablaze with lights
(lit.) village of three households / the Three Family Village, an essay column in a Beijing newspaper from 1961-1966, written by Deng Tuo 鄧拓|邓拓[Deng4 Tuo4], Wu Han 吳晗|吴晗[Wu2 Han2] and Liao Mosha 廖沫沙[Liao4 Mo4 sha1], criticized as anti-Party during the Cultural Revolution
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

Sentences with 家

nǐ
men
zài
jia̅
hǎo
hǎo
ca̅o
liàn
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