家
jiājiagūjie HSK1

house

家 jiā frequency
home noun
place where one lives; home; household; family

我从来没有一个家。

wǒ cóng​lái méi​yǒu yī​ge jiā.

I've never had a home.

我知道家是什么样子。

wǒ zhī​dao jiā shì shén​me yàng​zi.

I know what a home looks like.

specialist affixnoun
noun suffix for a person with special skills or expertise, equivalent to -ist, -er, or -ian

她也是一位小提琴家。

tā yě shì yī wèi xiǎo​tí​qín jiā.

She is also a violinist.

[classifier] measure word
classifier for families, households, shops, or businesses

我们是家小公司。

wǒ​men shì jiā xiǎo gōng​sī.

We are a small company.

这家店是怎么搞的？

zhè jiā diàn shì zěn​me gǎo de?

What's wrong with this shop?

[reflexive] pronoun
used to form reflexive pronouns, such as in 自家 zì​jiā
school of thought noun
philosophical or academic school of thought
my
(bound form) polite way to refer to one's own family members who are older than oneself
surname
a Chinese surname
家 傢 jiā
utensil noun
(bound form) utensil; tool; furniture; used in 家伙 jiā​huo or 家具 jiā​jù
家 jia
[category] affix
suffix used after certain nouns referring to people to indicate membership in a category

阴谋论家们对一切都有解释。

yīn​móu​lùn jia men duì yī​qiè dōu yǒu jiě​shì.

Conspiracy theorists have an explanation for everything.

家 gū
ma'am
(literary) polite form of address for a woman; same as 姑 gū
家 jie
[adverbial]
used between a describing word and a verb or adjective; same as 价 jie

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Frequency
Character
Written text
56th most common 2634.5 per million
Movie subtitles
74th most common 2399.3 per million appears in 100% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
805.6 per million appears in 90% of films
Written text
954.5 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 1
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Traditional
傢
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+5BB6

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)