gate / door / CL: 扇 / gateway / doorway / CL: 個｜个 / opening / valve / switch / way to do something / knack / family / house / (religious) sect / school (of thought) / class / category / phylum or division (taxonomy) / classifier for large guns / classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology / (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)

prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity / old (of people) / venerable (person) / experienced / of long standing / always / all the time / of the past / very / outdated / (of meat etc) tough

li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m / neighborhood / ancient administrative unit of 25 families / (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮｜镇 and neighborhood 鄰｜邻 levels

family member / (old) servant

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

head of a household / family head / patriarch / parent or guardian of a child

everyone / influential family / great expert

exterior surface / family relationship via females / to show (one's opinion) / a model / a table (listing information) / a form / a meter (measuring sth)

family name; surname / to be surnamed ...

whole family

entrance / door / gate / large and influential family

branch of study / administrative section / division / field / branch / stage directions / family (taxonomy) / rules / laws / to mete out (punishment) / to levy (taxes etc) / to fine sb / CL: 個｜个

family / household / CL: 戶｜户, 個｜个

category / genus (taxonomy) / family members / dependents / to belong to / subordinate to / affiliated with / be born in the year of (one of the 12 animals) / to be / to prove to be / to constitute

family member / (family) dependent

room / work unit / grave / scabbard / family or clan / one of the 28 constellations of Chinese astronomy

to drop in / to visit / to lock a door / (of a shop) to close / to go and live with one's wife's family, in effect becoming a member of her family

a household / door / family

to provide for the elderly (family members) / to enjoy a life in retirement

pigeon / dove / various birds of the family Columbidae

to provide for / to keep (animals, a family etc) / to raise animals / to feed and clothe / support / the necessities of life / to give birth

smoke from incense (burned as an offering to one's ancestors); (fig.) continuation of family line / cigarette (CL:支,條｜条,根,包,盒)

to hug / to cherish / within the bosom (of the family) / to embrace (also fig. an ideal, aspiration etc)

hole / opening / cut / gap / gash / my husband or wife / classifier for people (used for indicating the number of people in a family etc) / precedent

family name

old age / very / eldest child in a family / leader of a group / boss / captain of a boat / leader of a criminal gang

home-use / domestic / family expenses / housekeeping money

a relative (i.e. family relation) / CL: 門｜门, 個｜个, 位

family education / upbringing / to bring sb up / private tutor

royal family / imperial household / member of the royal family

(main) hall / large room for a specific purpose / CL: 間｜间 / relationship between cousins etc on the paternal side of a family / of the same clan / classifier for classes, lectures etc / classifier for sets of furniture

the whole family / members of the same family (lit. or fig.)

to attend simultaneously to two or more things / to balance (career and family, family and education etc)

fears of trouble in the rear (idiom); family worries (obstructing freedom of action) / worries about the future consequences / often in negative expressions, meaning "no worries about anything"

large amount / staple / influential family of long standing

filial / dutiful / devoted to one's parents (and grandparents etc) / to show filial piety towards (an older family member) / filial piety

affection / family love / love, esp. within a married couple or between parents and children

family financial situation / family circumstances

New Year's Eve family dinner

family / clan

extended family / big family / harmonious group

to go home to visit one's family

each and every family (idiom) / every household

the families are well-matched in terms of social status (idiom) / (of a prospective marriage partner) an appropriate match

every family (idiom)

to be born of / to come from / family background / class origin

to lose a family fortune (idiom)

friends and family / kith and kin

social group / subculture / family / clan / see also 族

(literary) gift (of money etc) to a bereaved family / to contribute to funeral expenses

photograph of the entire family / hodgepodge (cookery)

papaya (Carica papaya) / genus Chaenomeles of shrubs in the family Rosaceae / Chinese flowering quince (Chaenomeles speciosa)

tailorbird (Orthotomus spp.) / weaver bird (family Ploceidae) / variant of 鴃, shrike / cuckoo

surname Ji / family name of the royal family of the Zhou Dynasty 周代 (1046-256 BC)

pufferfish (family Tetraodontidae)

to manage the household / to be the one in charge of the family / to call the shots / to be in charge

the only son of a family / (functional programming or philosophy) monad

foundation / base / family estate

(of family members) separated from one another; scattered about; dispersed / (math.) discrete

(of the groom's family) to send a bridal sedan chair 花轎｜花轿 to fetch the bride / to send a party to escort the bride to the groom's house

katydid (family Tettigoniidae) / phonetic "sha" used in transliteration

lapis lazuli (mineral of the square albite family)

Bagridae (catfish family)

planned childbirth / birth control / family planning / abbr. for 計劃生育｜计划生育

house / room / CL: 間｜间 / branch of an extended family / classifier for family members (or concubines)

(bound form) book; record; register / (bound form) place of one's family or ancestral records / (bound form) membership

red root gromwell (Lithospermum erythrorhizon) / flowering plant whose roots provide purple dye / arnebia (plant genus in family Boraginaceae)

family scandal / skeleton in the closet

family with a literary reputation (idiom); literary family

household / dwelling / family / sb else's house / household business / house of woman's husband-to-be / CL: 戶｜户, 家

wasp of the family Sphecidae

family of flatfish / sole

the family's financial circumstances

oriole or various birds of the Sylvidae family including warblers

great family / rich family / large landlord / conspicuous spender or consumer

(botany) family Rutaceae (rue family, aka citrus family)

rich and powerful (families) / aristocratic / big shots

family tradition / family principles

powerful individual, family or group / clique / (loanword) valve

to make an offer of marriage (to another family on behalf of one's son or daughter) / to seek a marriage alliance

group of 100 families / place name

two simultaneous happy events in the family

to discredit / to defame / to smear sb's name / to bring shame upon (oneself or one's family etc) / to blacken (e.g. commando's face for camouflage) / to black out or obliterate (e.g. censored words)

various genera of flowers of Asteracea family (daisies and chrysanthemums), including Atractylis lancea

noble family / of Chinese ancestry

to be in charge of (a major area of responsibility) / person in charge; manager / (old) butler (of a rich family); chief steward

house door / family clan

croton (Croton tiglium), evergreen bush of Euphorbiaceae family 大戟科 / croton seed, a strong purgative

Wu Han (1909-1969), historian, author of biography of Zhu Yuanzhang 朱元璋, hounded to his death together with several members of his family during the cultural revolution

huqin / family of Chinese two-stringed fiddles, with snakeskin covered wooden soundbox and bamboo bow with horsehair bowstring

family of a functionary (i.e. educated middle class in Qing times)

eldest daughter of an affluent family / (polite) your daughter / bossy or indulged young woman / Miss High and Mighty

three generations of a family / the three earliest dynasties (Xia, Shang and Zhou)

sanxian, large family of 3-stringed plucked musical instruments, with snakeskin covered wooden soundbox and long neck, used in folk music, opera and Chinese orchestra

family matters / domestic affairs / housework

to exterminate an entire family

door / strategic gateway / portal / faction / sect / family status / family / web portal / (old) brothel

fleabane (family Asteraceae) / disheveled / classifier for luxuriant plants, smoke, ashes, campfires: clump, puff

victim's family (esp. in murder case)

genealogical record / family history / lineage