Meaning
furniture; tool; -ist; -er; -ian; home
Chinese: 家庭、住所或某类专门人士。
Hear the Four Tones
The same syllable “jia” becomes a different word in each tone. 家 is the 1st tone. Tap any tone to hear a native voice and see its pitch shape.
Stroke Order
Tap Animate to watch the strokes in order, or Practice to trace it yourself.
Common Words
- 大家dà jiāeveryone; influential family; great expert
- 国家guó jiācountry; nation; state
- 回家huí jiāto return home
- 家里jiā lǐhome
- 家人jiā rénfamily member; (old) servant
Example Sentence
我家有四口人。Wǒ jiā yǒu sì kǒu rén.There are four people in my family.
我WǒI家jiāhome有yǒuto have四sìfour口kǒumouth人rénperson。
Go deeper
Where this character comes from
A roof (宀) over a pig (豕): a pig kept indoors was the mark of a settled household. It means ‘home / family’.
A way to remember it
A pig under the roof — a household with livestock at home.
Easy to confuse with
- 象‘Elephant’: a similar lower body, but with no roof and a trunk on top.