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HSK
country; nation; state / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
home
HSK 1
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  *家* | 家* | *家
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 return home
HSK 1
family member / (old) servant
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
family / household / CL: 戶|户, 個|个
HSK 2
everyone / influential family / great expert
HSK 2
whole family
HSK 2
author / CL: 個|个,
HSK 2
painter / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
head of a household / family head / patriarch / parent or guardian of a child
HSK 2
furniture / CL: ,
HSK 3
hometown / native place / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
expert; specialist
HSK 3
to move house; to relocate / to remove (sth)
HSK 3
family member / (family) dependent
HSK 3
other people / sb else / he, she or they / I, me (referring to oneself as "one" or "people")
HSK 4
native place / place of origin / home state or region
HSK 4
household duties / housework
HSK 4
home / homeland
HSK 6
household electric appliance / abbr. for 家用電器|家用电器
HSK 6
family education / upbringing / to bring sb up / private tutor
HSK 7-9
the whole family / members of the same family (lit. or fig.)
HSK 7-9
polite term for old woman or man
HSK 7-9
family / clan
HSK 7-9
exclusive
HSK 7-9
housekeeping
HSK 7-9
factory; manufacturer / (coll.) a factory owner; the factory management
HSK 7-9
winner
HSK 7-9
poultry / domestic fowl
HSK 7-9
home-use / domestic / family expenses / housekeeping money
HSK 7-9
family financial situation / family circumstances
HSK 7-9
(old) butler; steward / manager; administrator; housekeeper / to manage a household
HSK 7-9
understood by everyone (idiom); well known / a household name
HSK 7-9
Confucian school, founded by Confucius 孔子 (551-479 BC) and Mencius 孟子 (c. 372-c. 289 BC)
HSK 7-9
to settle down and get married (of a man) / to become a recognized expert
HSK 7-9
to lose a family fortune (idiom)
HSK 7-9
my God! / oh boy! / man!
HSK 7-9
household dish, implement or furniture / domestic animal / (coll.) guy / chap / weapon
HSK 7-9
every family (idiom)
HSK 7-9
each and every family (idiom) / every household
HSK 7-9
to go from house to house
HSK 7-9
variant of 家伙
HSK 7-9
private car
HSK 7-9
extended family / big family / harmonious group
HSK 7-9
connoisseur; expert; veteran
HSK 7-9
loser (as opposed to winner 贏家|赢家)
HSK 7-9
FamilyMart (convenience store chain)
country code
player (of a game) / enthusiast (audio, model planes etc)
merchant / business / enterprise
Carrefour, French supermarket chain
oneself and one's family / family background / pedigree / one's property / one's total assets
botanist
psychologist
tutor
(lit.) village of three households / the Three Family Village, an essay column in a Beijing newspaper from 1961-1966, written by Deng Tuo 鄧拓|邓拓, Wu Han 吳晗|吴晗 and Liao Mosha 廖沫沙, criticized as anti-Party during the Cultural Revolution
family influential for generations / aristocratic family
buyer; purchaser
School of Agriculture, school of thought of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)
peasant family
The Sopranos (US TV series)
to settle down / to set up a home
School of Logicians of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC), also called the School of Names
renowned expert / master (of an art or craft)
oneself / one's own family
household / dwelling / family / sb else's house / household business / house of woman's husband-to-be / CL: 戶|户,
lit. for enemies, the road is narrow (idiom) / fig. rivals inevitably cross paths
Daoist School of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC), based on the teachings of Laozi or Lao-tze 老子 (c. 500 BC-) and Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子 (369-286 BC)
the daily life of a family
every family has its problems (idiom)
IKEA, Swedish furniture retailer
home; residence / to stay at home (unemployed)
to live at home / to stay at home / home (schooling etc) / in-home (care etc) / household (repairs etc) / living (environment etc)
Xiejiaji, a district of Huainan City 淮南市, Anhui
Buddhism / Buddhist
next-door neighbor; neighboring household
to pass on through the generations
National Security Bureau (NSB) (Tw) / National Security Agency (NSA) (USA)
household / family
Zhangjiagang, county-level city in Suzhou 蘇州|苏州, Jiangsu
to separate and live apart / division of a large family into smaller groups
one who is cut off from others (idiom) / one who has chosen to follow a solitary path / (can also be an indirect way of referring to an unmarried person)
respectable family; decent family
family property
the public / the state / society / the public purse
the Legalist school of political philosophy, which rose to prominence in the Warring States period (475-221 BC) (The Legalists believed that social harmony could only be attained through strong state control, and advocated for a system of rigidly applied punishments and rewards for specific behaviors.) / a Legalist
preceding player (in a game)
restaurant / bartender / (old) wineshop / tavern
perfect / excellent / brought to the utmost degree
whole family / entire household
private / privately owned or managed
to play house
domestic cat; house cat
genealogy / family tree

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