Pinyin: jiā

home; family

Example sentence

我家有四口人。

Wǒ jiā yǒu sì kǒu rén.

There are four people in my family.

What 家 means

(jiā) is a Chinese word meaning “home; family”. It belongs to the Places & Position topic and appears at HSK 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.

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