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HSK
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
household duties / housework
HSK 4
family / household / CL: 戶|户, 個|个
HSK 2
family member / (old) servant
HSK 1
family member / (family) dependent
HSK 3
hometown / native place / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
furniture / CL: ,
HSK 3
home / homeland
HSK 6
head of a household / family head / patriarch / parent or guardian of a child
HSK 2
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
domestic electric appliance
family / clan
HSK 7-9
family education / upbringing / to bring sb up / private tutor
HSK 7-9
recluse / hikikomori person
housekeeping
HSK 7-9
simple home-style meal / common occurrence / nothing out of the ordinary
(old) wife
each and every family (idiom) / every household
HSK 7-9
the daily life of a family
family property
poultry / domestic fowl
HSK 7-9
family property
familial property / belongings
domestic cat; house cat
(coll.) sparrow
the common silkworm (Bombyx mori)
understood by everyone (idiom); well known / a household name
HSK 7-9
domestic violence
household dish, implement or furniture / domestic animal / (coll.) guy / chap / weapon
HSK 7-9
dinner party held in one's home / family reunion dinner
(dialect) to go home; to return home
family property / patrimony
patriarchal system
family financial situation / family circumstances
HSK 7-9
(bird species of China) barn swallow (Hirundo rustica)
house door / family clan
tutor
home-style tofu
family member
a family tree
household chore
househusband
Carrefour, French supermarket chain
domestic duck
home / residence / house
housewife
home cinema; home theater
homework
if the family lives in harmony all affairs will prosper (idiom)
immensely rich
family goings-on
head of a family / (polite) my father / (polite) my grandfather / your esteemed father
(polite) my elder brother
see 家信
(polite) my mother
regional dish / local cuisine
family background
(polite) father's sisters
family matters / domestic affairs / housework
family and consumer science
hearth
(polite) my father
wife / family / (literary) residence
lit. family shames must not be spread abroad (idiom); fig. don't wash your dirty linen in public
domestic helper
(idiom) to have a sprawling business
instructions to one's children / family precepts
(polite) my older sister
household / family
home address
(polite) my maternal uncle
domestic (animals) / home reared
extreme poverty (idiom); destitute / penniless / poor as church mice
(old) servant hired to keep guard, run errands etc
one's wife and children
to come down in the world (idiom) / to suffer a reversal of fortune
(bird species of China) house crow (Corvus splendens)
home computer
wife (old)
home cooking
domestic violence (abbr. for 家庭暴力)
privately-owned car
to be of humble origin (idiom)
(dialect) husband's mother
househusband
(old) female servants or concubines in homes of the rich
(dialect) mother-in-law / (house)wife
(Tw) house (children's game); playing house
home; residence / to stay at home (unemployed)
(old) a senior in one's household
family livelihood / a household's economic situation / family property
lit. family shames must not be spread abroad (idiom) / fig. don't wash your dirty linen in public
letter to or from home or family
(polite) my mother
furniture store / furniture mall
lit. with only four bare walls for a home (idiom) / fig. very poor / wretched
handed down in a family / family traditions

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