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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
family / household / CL: 戶|户, 個|个
HSK 2
family member / (old) servant
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *傢* | 傢* | *傢
HSK 1
furniture / CL: ,
HSK 3
family member / (family) dependent
HSK 3
hometown / native place / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
home
HSK 1
household duties / housework
HSK 4
head of a household / family head / patriarch / parent or guardian of a child
HSK 2
home / homeland
HSK 6
home-use / domestic / family expenses / housekeeping money
HSK 7-9
family / clan
HSK 7-9
understood by everyone (idiom); well known / a household name
HSK 7-9
family education / upbringing / to bring sb up / private tutor
HSK 7-9
housekeeping
HSK 7-9
family property
housewife
household electric appliance / abbr. for 家用電器|家用电器
HSK 6
(old) wife
the daily life of a family
domestic electric appliance
each and every family (idiom) / every household
HSK 7-9
family member
poultry / domestic fowl
HSK 7-9
simple home-style meal / common occurrence / nothing out of the ordinary
genealogy / family tree
Carrefour, French supermarket chain
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
every family has its problems (idiom)
family property / patrimony
home computer
family property
family financial situation / family circumstances
HSK 7-9
(bird species of China) barn swallow (Hirundo rustica)
family and consumer science
home-style tofu
lit. family shames must not be spread abroad (idiom); fig. don't wash your dirty linen in public
househusband
home / residence / house
native language / native dialect
patriarchal system
family goings-on
domestic (animals) / home reared
home cinema; home theater
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
lit. family shames must not be spread abroad (idiom) / fig. don't wash your dirty linen in public
see 家信
head of a family / (polite) my father / (polite) my grandfather / your esteemed father
(polite) my elder brother
(polite) my mother
family background
(polite) father's sisters
family matters / domestic affairs / housework
wife (old)
hearth
(polite) my father
wife / family / (literary) residence
the distinctive style and techniques handed down from master to apprentice within a particular school
homework
(polite) my older sister
household / family
home address
tutor
Kellogg's (US food manufacturing company)
(polite) my maternal uncle
family scandal / skeleton in the closet
the common silkworm (Bombyx mori)
(old) servant hired to keep guard, run errands etc
furniture store / furniture mall
one's wife and children
to come down in the world (idiom) / to suffer a reversal of fortune
home cooking
if the family lives in harmony all affairs will prosper (idiom)
domestic violence (abbr. for 家庭暴力)
older generation in one's household (often referring to one's parents) / one's deceased close relatives
domestic horse
domestic helper
family livelihood / a household's economic situation / family property
to be of humble origin (idiom)
(dialect) husband's mother
househusband
housekeeping staff
parent-teacher conference / parents' association
(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
extreme poverty (idiom); destitute / penniless / poor as church mice
letter to or from home or family
(polite) my mother
lit. with only four bare walls for a home (idiom) / fig. very poor / wretched
(polite) my paternal grandfather
(polite) my uncle (father's younger brother)
the family's financial circumstances
recluse / hikikomori person

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