人家

人家 in English

rén jia pronoun HSK 6
other people / sb else / he, she or they / I, me (referring to oneself as "one" or "people")
rén jiā
household / dwelling / family / sb else's house / household business / house of woman's husband-to-be / CL:戶|户[hu4],家[jia1]

Measure word

  • a household; door; family attested
  • jiā home; family; (polite) my (sister, uncle etc); classifier for families or businesses; refers to the philosophical... attested

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 人 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 人 Show the animation

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 家 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 家 Show the animation

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

  • 他是有钱人家的儿子。

    He is the son of a wealthy family.

  • 对不起,这位子是否被人家占了?

    Excuse me, is this seat taken?

  • 至少20户人家着火了。

    At least 20 households caught fire.

  • 访客通常在进入一户日本人家之前会被要求脱鞋。

    Visitors are usually asked to remove their shoes before they enter a Japanese house.

  • 這位老人家非常仁慈。

    The old man is very kind.

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