居家 jū jiā to live at home / to stay at home / home (schooling etc) / in-home (care etc) / household (repairs etc) / living (environment etc) syn 叶落归根 葉落歸根 yè luò guī gēn a falling leaf returns to the roots (idiom) / everything has its ancestral home / In old age, an expatriate longs to return home. syn 树高千丈，叶落归根 樹高千丈，葉落歸根 shù gāo qiān zhàng , yè luò guī gēn fig. a tree may grow a thousand zhang high, but its leaves return to their roots (proverb) / fig. everything has its ancestral home / in old age, an expatriate returns home 主场 主場 zhǔ chǎng (sports) home ground / home field / (sports) home game / main venue (for a festival etc) 临门 臨門 lín mén to arrive home / facing one's home / home-coming / (soccer) facing the goalmouth 恋家 戀家 liàn jiā home-loving / to feel a strong attachment to home life / to begrudge being away from home syn 宾至如归 賓至如歸 bīn zhì rú guī guests feel at home (in a hotel, guest house etc) / a home away from home syn 在家千日好，出门一时难 在家千日好，出門一時難 zài jiā qiān rì hǎo , chū mén yī shí nán lit. at home, one can spend a thousand days in comfort, but spending a day away from home can be challenging (idiom) / fig. there's no place like home 恋念 戀念 liàn niàn to have a sentimental attachment to (a place) / to miss (one's ancestral home etc) / to be nostalgic about 本贯 本貫 běn guàn ancestral home / domicile of origin 家居 jiā jū home / residence / to stay at home (unemployed) syn 出门 出門 chū mén to go out / to leave home / to go on a journey / away from home / (of a woman) to get married syn 家庭影院 jiā tíng yǐng yuàn home cinema / home theater 敬老院 jìng lǎo yuàn senior citizens' home / old folks' home syn 本垒 本壘 běn lěi (baseball) home base / home plate 宅 zhái residence / (coll.) to stay in at home / to hang around at home syn 四海为家 四海為家 sì hǎi wéi jiā to regard the four corners of the world all as home (idiom) / to feel at home anywhere / to roam about unconstrained / to consider the entire country, or world, to be one's own syn 打道回府 dǎ dào huí fǔ to go home (in a ceremonial procession) / to return home syn 归省 歸省 guī xǐng to go home for a visit / to return to one's parents' home to pay respects 安老院 ān lǎo yuàn (dialect) old people's home / nursing home 老人院 lǎo rén yuàn nursing home / old people's home syn 第二回籍假国 第二回籍假國 alternative home leave country / alternate home leave country 替代回籍假国 替代回籍假國 alternative home leave country / alternate home leave country 家庭直播电视 家庭直播電視 direct-to-home television / direct-to-home broadcasting 家庭直播 direct-to-home television / direct-to-home broadcasting 在家靠父母，出外靠朋友 zài jiā kào fù mǔ , chū wài kào péng you one depends on one's parents when at home, and on one's friends when away from home (idiom) 在家靠父母，出门靠朋友 在家靠父母，出門靠朋友 zài jiā kào fù mǔ , chū mén kào péng you one depends on one's parents when at home, and on one's friends when away from home (idiom) 家去 jiā qù (dialect) to go home / to return home 家访 家訪 jiā fǎng to pay a home visit, esp. (of a teacher) to visit a student's home 故里 gù lǐ home town / native place syn 乡里 鄉里 xiāng lǐ one's home town or village syn 返乡 返鄉 fǎn xiāng to return to one's home town syn 乡 鄉 xiāng country or countryside / native place / home village or town / township (PRC administrative unit) syn 镇长 鎮長 zhèn zhǎng town headman / mayor (of small town or village) / bailiff 边城 邊城 biān chéng border town / remote town 虎门镇 虎門鎮 hǔ mén zhèn Humen Town, also known as Taiping 太平[Tai4 ping2], a town within Dongguan prefecture-level city 東莞市|东莞市[Dong1 guan3 Shi4], Guangdong 满城风雨 滿城風雨 mǎn chéng fēng yǔ lit. wind and rain sweeping through the town (idiom) / fig. a big scandal / an uproar / the talk of the town syn 北安普敦 běi ān pǔ dūn Northampton, town in central England, county town of Northamptonshire 北安普敦郡[Bei3 an1 pu3 dun1 jun4] 九份 jiǔ fèn Jiufen (or Jioufen or Chiufen), mountainside town in north Taiwan, former gold mining town, used as the setting for two well-known movies 祖先 zǔ xiān ancestors / forebears / (biology) ancestral species / ancient species from which present-day species evolved syn 祖籍 zǔ jí ancestral hometown / original domicile (and civil registration) syn 祠堂 cí táng ancestral hall / memorial hall syn 庙堂 廟堂 miào táng imperial ancestral temple / imperial court / temple syn 宗室 zōng shì imperial clan / member of the imperial clan / clansman / ancestral shrine syn 宗庙 宗廟 zōng miào temple / ancestral shrine syn 祖坟 祖墳 zǔ fén ancestral tomb syn 神位 shén wèi spirit tablet / ancestral tablet syn 籍 jí (bound form) book / record / register / (bound form) place of one's family or ancestral records / (bound form) membership syn 穆 mù solemn / reverent / calm / burial position in an ancestral tomb (old) / old variant of 默 庙 廟 miào temple / ancestral shrine / CL:座[zuo4] / temple fair / great imperial hall / imperial syn 祧 tiāo ancestral hall 禘 dì imperial ancestral sacrifice 礿 yuè spring imperial ancestral sacrifice 砫 zhǔ ancestral tablet 传宗接代 傳宗接代 chuán zōng jiē dài to carry on one's ancestral line syn 祊 bēng side altar inside ancestral temple 禴 yuè spring imperial ancestral sacrifice 祠庙 祠廟 cí miào ancestral hall / temple to one's forebears 血祭 xuè jì blood sacrifice / animal sacrifice (to a God or ancestral spirit) 谒访 謁訪 yè fǎng to pay one's respects / to visit (ancestral grave) 谒陵之旅 謁陵之旅 yè líng zhī lǚ visit to ancestral tomb 贯气 貫氣 guàn qì (feng shui) beneficial influence, esp. from one's ancestral graves / to confer a beneficial influence 谱氏 譜氏 pǔ shì family tree / ancestral records 郡望 jùn wàng choronym (a family's region of origin, used as an indicator of superior social status in a surname-choronym combination) (For example, the Tang writer Han Yu 韓愈|韩愈[Han2 Yu4] is also known as 韓昌黎|韩昌黎[Han2 Chang1li2], where 韓|韩[Han2] is his surname and 昌黎[Chang1li2] is his clan's ancestral prefecture 郡[jun4].) 宗祠 zōng cí ancestral temple / clan hall syn 祖茔 祖塋 zǔ yíng ancestral tomb syn 祖宅 zǔ zhái ancestral house 祖屋 zǔ wū ancestral house 首页 首頁 shǒu yè home page (of a website) / title page / front page / first page / fig. beginning / cover letter 主页 主頁 zhǔ yè home page 回家 huí jiā to return home syn 家里 家裡 jiā lǐ home syn 家园 家園 jiā yuán home / homeland syn 国内外 國內外 guó nèi wài domestic and international / at home and abroad 在家 zài jiā to be at home / (at a workplace) to be in (as opposed to being away on official business 出差[chu1chai1]) / (Buddhism etc) to remain a layman (as opposed to becoming a monk or a nun 出家[chu1jia1]) 中外 zhōng wài Sino-foreign / Chinese-foreign / home and abroad syn 家用 jiā yòng home-use / domestic / family expenses / housekeeping money syn 回国 回國 huí guó to return to one's home country 故乡 故鄉 gù xiāng home / homeland / native place / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 豪宅 háo zhái luxury home / mansion 老家 lǎo jiā native place / place of origin / home state or region syn 落户 落戶 luò hù to settle / to set up home syn 房贷 房貸 fáng dài home loan 海内外 海內外 hǎi nèi wài domestic and international / at home and abroad syn 出走 chū zǒu to leave home / to go off / to run away syn 归宿 歸宿 guī sù place to return to / home / final destination / ending 外边 外邊 wài bian outside / outer surface / abroad / place other than one's home syn 异乡 異鄉 yì xiāng foreign land / a place far from home syn 家庭生活 jiā tíng shēng huó home life 抛售 拋售 pāo shòu to dump (selling abroad more cheaply than cost price at home) syn 游子 遊子 yóu zǐ person living or traveling far from home syn 探亲 探親 tàn qīn to go home to visit one's family syn 离家出走 離家出走 lí jiā chū zǒu to leave home (to live somewhere else) 乡亲 鄉親 xiāng qīn fellow countryman (from the same village) / local people / villager / the folks back home syn 远行 遠行 yuǎn xíng a long journey / far from home syn 静默 靜默 jìng mò silent / still / quiet / to mourn in silence / to observe silence / (neologism c. 2022) to stay at home during a pandemic syn 闯荡 闖盪 chuǎng dàng to leave home to make one's way in the world / to leave the life one knows to seek success syn 新居 xīn jū new residence / new home 娘家 niáng jia married woman's parents' home syn 