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How to write 家 (jiā, “home”)

家 (jiā), an HSK 1 character, means “home”, “family” and “my”. It is also a measure word: CC-CEDICT pairs it with 42 nouns, 人家, 企业 and 公司 among them. As a top-bottom character it splits into 宀 (“roof”, the radical), strokes 1–3; 豕 (“hog”), strokes 4–10, written the top first. On its own it is an HSK 1 word; it also forms 大家 (“everyone”), 家人 (“family member”) and 国家 (“country”). Japanese reads it ka, “house”, as a JLPT N4 kanji.

Pinyin
jiā
Strokes
10
HSK
1
Radical
宀 (“roof”)

Stroke by stroke

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  1. Vertical ㇑topdown and right
  2. Dot ㇔top leftdownwards
  3. Horizontal hook ㇖top leftrightwards → down and left
  4. Horizontal ㇐top leftrightwards
  5. Left-falling stroke ㇒centerdown and left
  6. Curved hook ㇁centerdown and right → downwards → up and left
  7. Left-falling stroke ㇒centerdownwards → down and left
  8. Left-falling stroke ㇒centerdown and left
  9. Left-falling stroke ㇒rightdownwards → down and left
  10. Right-falling stroke ㇏centerdown and right

Names of the strokes

Japanese and Chinese

Japanese and Chinese draw all 10 strokes in the same order and direction, by our stroke-by-stroke comparison.

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Japanese · KanjiVG · 10 strokes
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Chinese · Make Me a Hanzi · 10 strokes

家 as a measure word

  • 人家 — household
  • 企业 — company
  • 公司 — company
  • 公堂 — law court
  • 剧院 — theater
  • 协会 — an association

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Pinyin and meaning

PinyinMeaningsTraditionalIn words
jiā
first tone		home; family; (polite) my (sister, uncle etc); classifier for families or businesses; refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China—大家 家人 国家 画家
HSK 2025 syllabus
level 1
2021 standard
level 1
HSK 2.0
in a level 1 word
Words with it
469 in CC-CEDICT

Words with 家

WordPinyinMeaning
家jiāhome; family HSK 1
大家dàjiāeveryone; influential family HSK 1
家人jiārénfamily member; servant HSK 1
国家 國家guójiācountry; nation HSK 3
画家 畫家huàjiāpainter HSK 3
搬家bānjiāto move house; to relocate HSK 3
作家zuòjiāauthor HSK 4
老家lǎojiānative place; place of origin HSK 4
家长 家長jiāzhǎnghead of a household; family head HSK 4
家乡 家鄉jiāxiānghometown; native place HSK 4

HSK words first (CC-CEDICT).

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