家

See also 傢, 冢, and 冡

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 宀 (“roof”) + phonetic 豕 (“pig”). 豕 is an abbreviation of 豭 (jiā, "male pig, boar") (Shuowen Jiezi), a homophone of 家 in Old Chinese (both *kˁra in the Baxter-Sagart system, 2011). 豭 is further composed of the phonetic part 叚 (jiǎ < OC *kˁraʔ, "to borrow") and the semantic part 豕 ("pig").

Han character

家 (radical 40 宀+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 十一尸人 (JMSO), four-corner 3023₂, composition ⿱宀豕)

1. house, home, residence
2. family
3. (as a suffix): professional, expert, performer
4. (as a suffix): a school of thought (儒家, 道家, 法家)

Derived characters

• 傢 嫁 稼

References

• KangXi: page 286, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7169
• Dae Jaweon: page 566, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 930, character 15
• Unihan data for U+5BB6

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Cantonese

Hanzi

家 (Yale ga1)

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Japanese

Etymology 1

/ihe1/: [ipe] > [iɸe] > [iwe] > [ie]. Possibly related to io.

Noun

家 (hiragana いえ, romaji ie, historical hiragana いへ)

1. a house
2. one's own home
3. a home; a household
4. a family

Suffix

家 (hiragana か, romaji -ka)

1. (as suffix) an expert, professional, performer

Etymology 2

Cognate with uchi.

Noun

家 (hiragana うち, romaji uchi)

1. a house
2. one's house

Suffix

家 (hiragana け, romaji -ke)

1. a suffix representing relationship to a family

   平家

   たいらけ
   Taira-ke

   the Taira family

Etymology 3

A contraction of uchi > chi. Often following the genitive case marker no which contracts to n.

Noun

家 (hiragana ち, romaji chi)

1. house

   俺ん家に来ない？

   おれんちにこない？
   orenchi ni konai?

   Wanna come to my place?

Noun

家 (hiragana や, romaji ya)

1. house

Suffix

家 (hiragana や, romaji -ya)

1. house of something, place where some business is conducted
2. person who does that thing

Kanji

家 (grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: か (ka), け (ke), こ (ko)
• Kun: いえ (ie), や (ya), うち (uchi)

Compounds

家屋 家具 家族

家庭 家禽 (かきん, kakin, “domestic fowls, poultry”)

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Korean

Hanja

家 (hangeul 가, 고, revised ga, go, McCune-Reischauer ka, ko)

Compounds

• 가구 (gagu, 家口)
• 가장 (gajang, 家長)
• 가정 (gajeong, 家庭)
• 가족 (gajok, 家族)
• 작가 (jakka, 作家)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

家 (pinyin jiā (jia1), Wade-Giles chia¹)

1. house
2. home
3. family

Compounds

家财 家蚕 家产 家长里短, 家长里短儿 家常 家常便饭 家常话 家仇 家丑 家畜 家传 家祠 家慈 家大业大 家当, 家当儿 家道 家底, 家底儿 家电 家丁 家法 家访 家风 家父 家鸽 家馆 家规 家户 家伙 家鸡 家给人足 家计 家祭 家家, 家家儿 家家户户 家教 家姐 家景 家境 家居 家具 家眷 家君 家口 家累 家里 家门 家庙 家母 家娘 家奴 家贫如洗 家破人亡 家谱 家雀儿 家禽 家人

家舍 家生子, 家生子儿 家声 家什 家史 家世 家事 家室 家书 家属 家鼠 家数 家私 家天下 家庭 家庭病床 家庭承包 家庭妇女 家庭教育 家庭手工业 家庭影院 家徒四壁 家兔 家蚊 家屋 家无担石, 家无儋石 家务 家弦胡诵 家乡 家小 家信 家兄 家学 家训 家鸭 家严 家宴 家燕 家养 家业 家蝇 家用 家鱼 家喻户晓 家园 家院 家宅 家长 家长制 家珍 家种 家主 家传 家资 家子 家族

Noun

家 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin jiā)

1. home
2. family

Synonyms

• 家里

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Vietnamese

Han character

家 (gia, nhà)