在家

to be at home / (at a workplace) to be in (as opposed to being away on official business 出差[chu1 chai1]) / (Buddhism etc) to remain a layman (as opposed to becoming a monk or a nun 出家[chu1 jia1])

Characters and words in 在家

在

zài = z + ai4

to exist; to be alive / (of sb or sth) to be (located) at / (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)

Add a new mnemonic for 在 = 一 + 亻 + 土

在 = 一 + 亻 + 土 : Zorro (z) and Rosa Luxemburg (亻) exist (在) in the airplane's bathroom (ai4). Rosa is in the middle of balancing a flute (一) on her head and on a pile of clay (土). Zorro uses his rapier to inscribe "Z" into the flute, so as to mark that the pronunciation of "在" begins with "z".

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家

傢

jia̅ = ji + a1

see 傢伙|家伙[jia1 huo5]

Add a new mnemonic for 家 = 宀 + 豕

Add a new mnemonic for 傢 = 亻 + 家

家

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]

Add a new mnemonic for 家 = 宀 + 豕

家 = 宀 + 豕 : 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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Words with 在家

在

zài

家

jia̅

千

qia̅n

日

rì

好

hǎo

，

出

chu̅

门

門

mén

一

yi̅

时

時

shí

难

難

nán

lit. at home, one can spend a thousand days in comfort, but spending a day away from home can be challenging (idiom) / fig. there's no place like home

在

zài

家

jia̅

靠

kào

父

fù

母

mǔ

，

出