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HSK
to return home
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
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 move house; to relocate / to remove (sth)
HSK 3
author / CL: 個|个,
HSK 2
other people / sb else / he, she or they / I, me (referring to oneself as "one" or "people")
HSK 4
country; nation; state / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
whole family
HSK 2
everyone / influential family / great expert
HSK 2
native place / place of origin / home state or region
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *傢* | 傢* | *傢
HSK 1
expert; specialist
HSK 3
Confucian school, founded by Confucius 孔子 (551-479 BC) and Mencius 孟子 (c. 372-c. 289 BC)
HSK 7-9
painter / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
the whole family / the same family / the family ... (when preceded by a family name) / group
entrepreneur
factory; manufacturer / (coll.) a factory owner; the factory management
HSK 7-9
housekeeper who looks after old people with no children or whose children do not live with them
Daoist
family influential for generations / aristocratic family
the Hundred Schools of Thought, the various schools of thought and their exponents during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (770-220 BC)
musician
winner
HSK 7-9
financier; banker
household / dwelling / family / sb else's house / household business / house of woman's husband-to-be / CL: 戶|户,
developing country
philosopher
to settle down and get married (of a man) / to become a recognized expert
HSK 7-9
the School of the Military, one of the Hundred Schools of Thought 諸子百家|诸子百家 of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC)
military strategist in ancient China / military commander / soldier
sovereign country
Buddhism / Buddhist
scientist / CL: 個|个
enemy / foe / (in opera) sweetheart or destined love
merchant / business / enterprise
Hakka ethnic group, a subgroup of the Han that in the 13th century migrated from northern China to the south
BRICS (economic bloc)
specialist
composer / songwriter
connoisseur; expert; veteran
HSK 7-9
the eight giants of Tang and Song prose, esp. involved in the Classics movement 古文運動|古文运动, namely: Han Yu 韓愈|韩愈, Liu Zongyuan 柳宗元, Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修|欧阳修, the three Su's 三蘇|三苏, Wang Anshi 王安石, Zeng Gong 曾鞏|曾巩
player (of a game) / enthusiast (audio, model planes etc)
School of Yin-Yang of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) founded by Zou Yan 鄒衍|邹衍
historian
artist / CL: 個|个, ,
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 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
perfect / excellent / brought to the utmost degree
I / me / my / (often used in early vernacular literature)
I / me / we / my home / our house
polite term for old woman or man
HSK 7-9
to enter monastic life; to become a monk or nun
critic
(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)
enemy / foe
astronomer
to search a house and confiscate possessions
royal / imperial household
exclusive
HSK 7-9
to support a family / to raise a family
the public / the state / society / the public purse
IKEA, Swedish furniture retailer
capitalist
FamilyMart (convenience store chain)
women (in general)
Yoshinoya (Japanese fast food chain)
to settle down / to set up a home
to separate and live apart / division of a large family into smaller groups
residence / household / to reside
economist
to pass on through the generations
Mohist School of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC), founded by the philosopher 墨子
wife's family (before marriage)
statesman / politician / CL: 個|个, ,
geographer
reformer
(old) butler; steward / manager; administrator; housekeeper / to manage a household
HSK 7-9
paleontologist; paleobiologist
preceding player (in a game)
a member of the same clan / a distant relative with the same family name
anthropologist
historian
historian
loser (as opposed to winner 贏家|赢家)
HSK 7-9
observer (esp. one who analyzes social or political affairs)
a revolutionary
investor
Four Great Painters of the Six Dynasties, namely: Cao Buxing 曹不興|曹不兴, Gu Kaizhi 顧愷之|顾恺之, Lu Tanwei 陸探微|陆探微 and Zhang Sengyou 張僧繇|张僧繇
to start from scratch (idiom)
ecologist
person who lives and makes a living on a boat / boatman / boat dweller
athlete / sportsman / activist
(old) shopkeeper; innkeeper / (dialect) shop; store
learned person / expert in a certain field / abbr. for 大方之家
a climatologist
inventor
to return home
singer
a collector (e.g. of artworks)

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