IDENTITY
家jiāhome; family
HSK 1Top 34
CORE MEANING
home; family
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.home; familyHSK1
- 2.specialist (suffix)HSK3
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 宀roof radical (mián)
- strokes
- 10
- Structure
- top-bottom compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿱宀豕
- roof
- pig; a pig under the roof = a farm household
USAGE
Common words
大家dàjiāeveryone
国家guójiācountry
家人jiārénfamily members
Graded examples
我家有四口人。Wǒ jiā yǒu sì kǒu rén.HSK1
There are four people in my family.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 嫁
LEARNING
Memory aid
A pig (豕) under a roof (宀) — the old farmhouse home.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #34
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-14
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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