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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
family member / (old) servant
HSK 1
home
HSK 1
family / household / CL: 戶|户, 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
family member / (family) dependent
HSK 3
household duties / housework
HSK 4
household electric appliance / abbr. for 家用電器|家用电器
HSK 6
home / homeland
HSK 6
family / clan
HSK 7-9
housekeeping
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
family education / upbringing / to bring sb up / private tutor
HSK 7-9
understood by everyone (idiom); well known / a household name
HSK 7-9
household dish, implement or furniture / domestic animal / (coll.) guy / chap / weapon
HSK 7-9
each and every family (idiom) / every household
HSK 7-9
variant of 家伙
HSK 7-9
family property
Carrefour, French supermarket chain
tutor
the daily life of a family
every family has its problems (idiom)
home; residence / to stay at home (unemployed)
housekeeping staff
household / family
family property
domestic cat; house cat
genealogy / family tree
wife and children / wife
home / residence / house
familial property / belongings
(old) servant hired to keep guard, run errands etc
instructions to one's children / family precepts
see 家信
simple home-style meal / common occurrence / nothing out of the ordinary
(polite) my father
domestic slave / slave servant
wife / family / (literary) residence
domestic animal / livestock / cattle
family background
the rules and discipline that apply within a family / stick used for punishing children or servants / traditions of an artistic or academic school of thought, passed on from master to pupil
house door / family clan
family financial circumstances
letter to or from home or family
domestic (animals) / home reared
family scandal / skeleton in the closet
(polite) my elder brother
one's wife and children
family bankrupt and the people dead (idiom); ruined and orphaned / destitute and homeless
lit. the flowers in one's garden cannot match the fragrance of wild flowers (idiom) / fig. other women seem more attractive than one's own partner / the grass is always greener on the other side
(polite) my mother
the family's financial circumstances
domestic duck
(polite) my father
(polite) father's sisters
house fly
family livelihood / a household's economic situation / family property
lit. each household provided for, enough for the individual (idiom); comfortably off
servant
(polite) my mother
housewife
utensils / furniture
variant of 家具
variant of 家具
domestic electric appliance
head of a household
extreme poverty (idiom); destitute / penniless / poor as church mice
(polite) my uncle (father's younger brother)
family matters / domestic affairs / housework
(old) a senior in one's household
(polite) my younger brother
(polite) my paternal grandfather
counselor of king or feudal warlord / henchman
to come down in the world (idiom) / to suffer a reversal of fortune
(polite) my sister-in-law
head of a family / (polite) my father / (polite) my grandfather / your esteemed father
(old) wife
home cooking
home cinema; home theater
domestic violence (abbr. for 家庭暴力)
the distinctive style and techniques handed down from master to apprentice within a particular school
recluse / hikikomori person
household chore
parent-teacher conference / parents' association
househusband
lit. family shames must not be spread abroad (idiom) / fig. don't wash your dirty linen in public
regional dish / local cuisine
family rules; family code of conduct
homework
(Tw) house (children's game); playing house
(dialect) to go home; to return home
my sister
home address
native language / native dialect
older generation in one's household (often referring to one's parents) / one's deceased close relatives

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