家
家 in English
- home / family / (polite) my (sister, uncle etc) / classifier for families or businesses / refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China / noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian / CL:個|个[ge4]
Measure word
- 个 gè (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual attested
Stroke order
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
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 34 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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911事件让世人震惊，全球所有的政治家都一致谴责恐怖分子的这一应受人斥责的行径。
Shocked by the events of September 11th, politicians all over the world condemned the terrorists of their reprehensible deed.
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Jane正要离开家。
Jane was about to leave the house.
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Ken昨天在家吗？
Was Ken at home yesterday?
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Meier先生以为Neumann一家去度假了。
Mr. Meier thought the Neumann family was away on vacation.
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一个入室盗窃者趁我去旅游的时候闯入了我家。
A burglar broke into my house while I was away on a trip.