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to return home
HSK 1
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  *家* | 家* | *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
HSK 1
to be at home / (at a workplace) to be in (as opposed to being away on official business 出差) / (Buddhism etc) to remain a layman (as opposed to becoming a monk or a nun 出家)
HSK 1
to go out / to leave home / to go on a journey / away from home / (of a woman) to get married
HSK 2
Sino-foreign / Chinese-foreign / home and abroad
HSK 6
outside / outer surface / abroad / place other than one's home
HSK 1
home / homeland / native place / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
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  *鄉* | 鄉* | *鄉
country or countryside / native place / home village or town / township (PRC administrative unit)
HSK 5
native place / place of origin / home state or region
HSK 4
to return to one's home country
HSK 2
(of a restaurant) to provide a takeout or home delivery meal / takeout (business) / takeout (meal)
HSK 2
home
HSK 1
to travel far away from home
home / homeland
HSK 6
home-use / domestic / family expenses / housekeeping money
HSK 7-9
home page
HSK 7-9
to call on sb / to drop in / to visit sb's home
HSK 7-9
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  *宅* | 宅* | *宅
residence / (coll.) to stay in at home / to hang around at home
home delivery of meal
(of a groom) to fetch one's bride from her parents' home to escort her to the wedding ceremony / (fig.) to take as one's wife; to marry (a woman)
a supervised line of schoolchildren walking in procession along public streets, esp. primary school students returning home after school
(idiom) to be nothing to write home about
Freddie Mac, US mortgage company / formerly Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.
motherland; home country
former residence / one's original home
left panel (displayed by swiping right from the main panel of the home screen)
to leave home / to go off / to run away
HSK 7-9
to hit the target (esp. in argument); to strike home
home run (baseball)
guard home, defend the country (idiom); national defense
place to return to / home / final destination / ending
HSK 7-9
fellow countryman (from the same village) / local people / villager / the folks back home
HSK 7-9
old residence / former home
a falling leaf returns to the roots (idiom); everything has its ancestral home / In old age, an expatriate longs to return home.
(sports) home ground; home field / (sports) home game / main venue (for a festival etc)
to go home to visit one's family
HSK 7-9
(PRC law) residential surveillance / to order sb to stay at their home, or a designated location, under surveillance
domestic and international / at home and abroad
domestic and international; at home and abroad
HSK 7-9
folk remedy / home remedy
HSK 7-9
to regard the four corners of the world all as home (idiom) / to feel at home anywhere / to roam about unconstrained / to consider the entire country, or world, to be one's own
I / me / we / my home / our house
simple home-style meal / common occurrence / nothing out of the ordinary
(of a wife) to return to her parental home / (fig.) to return to one's old place, job, school etc
to live at home / to stay at home / home (schooling etc) / in-home (care etc) / household (repairs etc) / living (environment etc)
one depends on one's parents when at home, and on one's friends when away from home (idiom)
to stay at home while one's husband is away / grass widow
an ordinary meal / simple home cooking
HSK 7-9
to make one's home in a place / to settle
ordinary and mediocre (idiom); nothing to write home about
houses / homes
to settle / to set up home
HSK 7-9
dinner party held in one's home / family reunion dinner
to hit the target and do real damage (idiom) / fig. to hit where it hurts / fig. to hit home / an argument that hits the nail on the head
(dialect) to go home; to return home
to linger / to remain enjoying oneself and forget to go home
to settle down / to set up a home
home computer
fig. a tree may grow a thousand zhang high, but its leaves return to their roots (proverb) / fig. everything has its ancestral home / in old age, an expatriate returns home
lit. an old horse knows the way home (idiom); fig. in difficulty, trust an experience colleague
at home wherever one is (idiom); ready to adapt / flexible / to accept circumstances with good will
to make one's home / to take shelter
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  *府* | 府* | *府
seat of government / government repository (archive) / official residence / mansion / presidential palace / (honorific) Your home / prefecture (from Tang to Qing times)
one's home town or village
unilateral / one-sided / home remedy / folk prescription(same as 丹方) / single-drug prescription (same as 奇方, one of the seven kinds of prescriptions of Chinese medicine 七方) / metaphorically. a good solution
to dump (selling abroad more cheaply than cost price at home)
foreign land / a place far from home
time-sharing (shared use, e.g. of a holiday home) / (computing) time-sharing
home-style tofu
congratulations on house-moving or promotion (idiom); Best wishes for your new home!
a prodigal son returned home is worth more than gold
to hit home on the evils of the day (idiom); fig. to hit a current political target / to hit the nub of the matter
Homer's Odyssey
lit. (may the) five blessings descend upon this home (namely: longevity, wealth, health, virtue, and a natural death) / (an auspicious saying for the Lunar New Year)
senior citizens' home; old folks' home
to follow up a victory and press home the attack / to pursue retreating enemy
ancestral home (town) / birthplace
new residence / new home
a learned person need not leave his home to know what's going on in the world (idiom)
home / residence / house
domestic (animals) / home reared
stay-at-home dad
to return home
everyday robe worn at home in ancient times / robe worn by priests, monks and scholars
person living or traveling far from home
home cinema; home theater
indoors / within the home
lit. to not go home until drunk (idiom) / fig. let's make a night of it!
lots of money, less work, and close to home / ideal job
unpleasant to hear / grates on the ear (of home truths)
Mt Wutai in Shanxi 山西, one of the Four Sacred Mountains and home of the Bodhimanda of Manjushri 文殊
one depends on one's parents when at home, and on one's friends when away from home (idiom)
my humble home
the way back / one's journey home
(literary) to stay long in a place far from home / (literary) person who lives in an alien land
to go home (to one's native country) / to return from abroad
if an official does not put the people first, he might as well go home and sell sweet potatoes
speech that grates on the ear (idiom); bitter truths / home truths (that one does not want to hear)
to return home with honor
a guy who stays at home all the time, typically spending a lot of time playing online games (derived from Japanese "otaku")

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