家

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See also: 傢, 冢, and 冡

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

家 (radical 40 宀+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 十一尸人 (JMSO), four-corner 30232, composition ⿱宀豕)

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 286, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7169
  • Dae Jaweon: page 566, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 930, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+5BB6

Chinese[edit]

-
simp. and trad.
 家
Stroke order
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Stroke order
家-order.gif

Etymology[edit]

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 宀 (“roof”) + phonetic 豕 (“pig”). 豕 is an abbreviation of 豭 (jiā, "male pig, boar") (Shuowen Jiezi), a homophone of 家 in Old Chinese (both *kˁra in the Baxter-Sagart system, 2011). 豭 is further composed of the phonetic part 叚 (jiǎ, from Old Chinese *kˁraʔ, "to borrow") and the semantic part 豕 ("pig").

Pronunciation[edit]

Middle Chinese pronunciation (家, reconstructed)
Character (家), Pronunciation 1/1

Initial: 見 (28)
Final: 麻
Division: II

Openness: Open
Tone: Level (Ø)

 Fanqie: 古牙切
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 Bernard
Karlgren		 Li
Rong		 Pan
Wuyun		 Edwin
Pulleyblank		 Wang
Li		 Shao
Rongfen
/kɣa/ /ka/ /ka/ /kɯa/ /kaɨ/ /ka/ /ka/
Old Chinese pronunciation (家, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character Modern Beijing
(Pinyin)		 Middle Chinese Old Chinese English
家 jiā ‹ kæ › /*kˤra/ household

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

  • Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
  • Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
  • Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
  • Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
  • Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character No. Phonetic
component		 Rime
group		 Rime
subdivision		 Corresponding
MC rime		 Old Chinese Notes
家 5919 家 魚 0 嘉 /*kraː/

Noun[edit]

家

  1. (Beginning Mandarin) home
    我的家就在這裡。 [MSC, trad.]
    我的家就在这里。 [MSC, simp.]
    Wǒ de jiā jiù zài zhèlǐ. [Pinyin]
    My home is here.
  2. (Beginning Mandarin) family; household
  3. school of thought; philosophical school
    儒家  ―  Rújiā  ―  Confucian school
    道家  ―  Dàojiā  ―  Daoist School

Suffix[edit]

家

  1. specialist in a certain activity or field -ist; -er; -ary; -ian
    藝術家 / 艺术家  ―  yìshùjiā  ―  artist
    科學家 / 科学家  ―  kēxuéjiā  ―  scientist

Pronoun[edit]

家

  1. (polite, for family member) my

Classifier[edit]

家

  1. measure word for families or businesses

Synonyms[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Related terms

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

See also:
家

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

/ihe1/: [ipe] → [iɸe] → [iwe] → [ie]. Possibly related to io.

Noun[edit]

家 (hiragana いえ, romaji ie)

  1. a house
  2. one's own home
  3. a home; a household
  4. a family

Suffix[edit]

家 (hiragana か, romaji -ka)

  1. (as suffix) an expert, professional, performer

Etymology 2[edit]

Cognate with 内 (uchi).

Noun[edit]

家 (hiragana うち, romaji uchi)

  1. a house
  2. one's house

Suffix[edit]

家 (hiragana け, romaji -ke)

  1. a suffix representing relationship to a family
    平 (たいら)家 (け)
    taira-ke
    the Taira family

Etymology 3[edit]

A contraction of uchi → chi. Often following the genitive case marker no which contracts to n.

Noun[edit]

家 (hiragana ち, romaji chi)

  1. house
    俺 (おれ)ん家 (ち)に来 (こ)ない？
    ore n chi ni konai?
    Wanna come to my place?

Noun[edit]

家 (hiragana や, romaji ya)

  1. house

Suffix[edit]

家 (hiragana や, romaji -ya)

  1. house of something, place where some business is conducted
  2. person who does that thing
See also[edit]

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

家 (ga, go) (hangeul 가, 고, McCune-Reischauer ka, ko)

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Compounds[edit]

Derived terms

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

家 (gia, nhà)

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