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家

jiā

Meaning

  1. home
  2. family
  3. (polite) my (sister, uncle etc)
  4. classifier for families or businesses
  5. refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China
  6. noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian
Pinyin
jiā
Classifier
个|個(gè)

Character reference

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家 jiāhouse, home, residence; family Primary radical宀 · roof

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