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HSK
country; nation; state / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
home
HSK 1
to return home
HSK 1
family member / (old) servant
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *傢* | 傢* | *傢
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
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
author / CL: 個|个,
HSK 2
family / household / CL: 戶|户, 個|个
HSK 2
painter / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
everyone / influential family / great expert
HSK 2
whole family
HSK 2
head of a household / family head / patriarch / parent or guardian of a child
HSK 2
to move house; to relocate / to remove (sth)
HSK 3
furniture / CL: ,
HSK 3
expert; specialist
HSK 3
hometown / native place / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
family member / (family) dependent
HSK 3
household duties / housework
HSK 4
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
home / homeland
HSK 6
household electric appliance / abbr. for 家用電器|家用电器
HSK 6
home-use / domestic / family expenses / housekeeping money
HSK 7-9
winner
HSK 7-9
factory; manufacturer / (coll.) a factory owner; the factory management
HSK 7-9
exclusive
HSK 7-9
polite term for old woman or man
HSK 7-9
(old) butler; steward / manager; administrator; housekeeper / to manage a household
HSK 7-9
family education / upbringing / to bring sb up / private tutor
HSK 7-9
family financial situation / family circumstances
HSK 7-9
loser (as opposed to winner 贏家|赢家)
HSK 7-9
connoisseur; expert; veteran
HSK 7-9
family / clan
HSK 7-9
each and every family (idiom) / every household
HSK 7-9
housekeeping
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
every family (idiom)
HSK 7-9
to go from house to house
HSK 7-9
(idiom) homeless
HSK 7-9
household dish, implement or furniture / domestic animal / (coll.) guy / chap / weapon
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
poultry / domestic fowl
HSK 7-9
variant of 家伙
HSK 7-9
extended family / big family / harmonious group
HSK 7-9
my God! / oh boy! / man!
HSK 7-9
private car
HSK 7-9
the whole family / members of the same family (lit. or fig.)
HSK 7-9
understood by everyone (idiom); well known / a household name
HSK 7-9
Office of Chinese Language Council International (known colloquially as "Hanban"), an organ of the PRC government which develops Chinese language and culture teaching resources worldwide, and has established Confucius Institutes 孔子學院|孔子学院 internationally / abbr. to 漢辦|汉办
lit. at home, one can spend a thousand days in comfort, but spending a day away from home can be challenging (idiom) / fig. there's no place like home
mountaineer (HK)
PRC State Planning Committee, abbr. for 國家計劃委員會|国家计划委员会
Six schools of pre-Han philosophy, as analyzed by 司馬談|司马谈 (儒家, 道家, 陰陽|阴阳, 法家, 名家, and 墨家)
Organization of American States
Xiangjiaba Dam, Yunnan, site of a hydropower station
area in Beichuan county Sichuan
tutor
wife's parents' home
microbiologist
historian
to go back to one's roots / to return to one's native place / by ext. to join one's ancestors (i.e. to die)
hearth
a member of the same clan / a distant relative with the same family name
(of a wife) to return to her parental home / (fig.) to return to one's old place, job, school etc
a collector (e.g. of artworks)
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
to have a style of one's own
see 苗族
PRC State Development and Planning Committee, set up 1998 to replace State Planning Committee 國家計劃委員會|国家计划委员会, replaced in 2003 by National Development and Reform Commission 國家發展和改革委員會|国家发展和改革委员会
Hakka people
to destroy one's family
Yinjiang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County in Tongren 銅仁市|铜仁市, Guizhou
house door / family clan
home; residence / to stay at home (unemployed)
(usually derog.) an old hand at sth
to manage the household / to be the one in charge of the family / to call the shots / to be in charge
royal / imperial household
player (of a game) / enthusiast (audio, model planes etc)
merchant / business / enterprise
petty / small-minded
Hakka ethnic group, a subgroup of the Han that in the 13th century migrated from northern China to the south
domestic duck
woman (derog.)
(bird species of China) house sparrow (Passer domesticus)
to live at home / to stay at home / home (schooling etc) / in-home (care etc) / household (repairs etc) / living (environment etc)
home cooking
the country ruined and the people starving (idiom)
geographer
FamilyMart (convenience store chain)
(old) shopkeeper; innkeeper / (dialect) shop; store
the family's financial circumstances
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)
restaurant / bartender / (old) wineshop / tavern
family influential for generations / aristocratic family
(old) child, particularly referring to the son who resembles his father
the whole family / the same family / the family ... (when preceded by a family name) / group
to take all one's family along (idiom); encumbered by a family / tied down by family obligations

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