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HSK
home
HSK 1
family member / (old) servant
HSK 1
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  *傢* | 傢* | *傢
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 / 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
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
family education / upbringing / to bring sb up / private tutor
HSK 7-9
family financial situation / family circumstances
HSK 7-9
family / clan
HSK 7-9
each and every family (idiom) / every household
HSK 7-9
housekeeping
HSK 7-9
household dish, implement or furniture / domestic animal / (coll.) guy / chap / weapon
HSK 7-9
poultry / domestic fowl
HSK 7-9
variant of 家伙
HSK 7-9
understood by everyone (idiom); well known / a household name
HSK 7-9
tutor
hearth
house door / family clan
home; residence / to stay at home (unemployed)
parent-teacher conference / parents' association
domestic duck
(bird species of China) house sparrow (Passer domesticus)
(polite) father's sisters
home cooking
the family's financial circumstances
(old) child, particularly referring to the son who resembles his father
home computer
familial property / belongings
head of a household
(dialect) husband's mother
family background
housewife
family property
family livelihood / a household's economic situation / family property
the daily life of a family
instructions to one's children / family precepts
family matters / domestic affairs / housework
(polite) my paternal grandfather
domestic electric appliance
handed down in a family / family traditions
family history (as a literary genre)
(old) a senior in one's household
to come down in the world (idiom) / to suffer a reversal of fortune
genealogy / family tree
see 家信
homework
wife and children / wife
family rules; family code of conduct
family scandal / skeleton in the closet
family property
lit. family shames must not be spread abroad (idiom) / fig. don't wash your dirty linen in public
(polite) my sister-in-law
if the family lives in harmony all affairs will prosper (idiom)
(old) servant hired to keep guard, run errands etc
servant
(polite) my older sister
(coll.) sparrow
(polite) my maternal uncle
household chore
head of a family / (polite) my father / (polite) my grandfather / your esteemed father
(polite) my father
extreme poverty (idiom); destitute / penniless / poor as church mice
(polite) my uncle (father's younger brother)
my sister
counselor of king or feudal warlord / henchman
simple home-style meal / common occurrence / nothing out of the ordinary
home / residence / house
(polite) my mother
domestic animal / livestock / cattle
every family has its problems (idiom)
family property / patrimony
patriarchal system
lit. each household provided for, enough for the individual (idiom); comfortably off
dinner party held in one's home / family reunion dinner
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
domestic slave / slave servant
(bird species of China) barn swallow (Hirundo rustica)
househusband
(polite) my mother
family financial circumstances
wife / family / (literary) residence
(polite) my elder brother
older generation in one's household (often referring to one's parents) / one's deceased close relatives
(polite) my father
variant of 家具
servant
one's wife and children
lit. with only four bare walls for a home (idiom) / fig. very poor / wretched
utensils / furniture
letter to or from home or family
family property / family wealth
household / family
domestic violence (abbr. for 家庭暴力)

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