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Definition
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family
我家在北京.My family is in Beijing.你家有几口人?How many people are there in your family?
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household
我家有四口人。There are four people in my household.
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home
我家不大。My home isn't big.他要回家。He wants to go home.你不在家You are not home.
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classifier (for families and businesses)
那家饭店很受欢迎。This restaurant is very popular.
- measure word
- noun suffix (for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary)
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-ist ( suffix, can also be -er, -ary or -ian in English)
科学家Scientist
- refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China
Compounds (4)
Related words (403)
older generation in one's household (often referring to one's parents); one's deceased close relatives
(household) implement; (household) furniture; (household) dish; (domestic) animal; (coll.) guy; chap; weapon
household; dwelling; family; sb else's house; household business; house of woman's husband-to-be
organizer of a gambling party who takes a cut of the winnings; banker (gambling); preceding player (in a game); (dialect) boss; proprietor
to live at home; to stay at home; home (schooling etc); in-home (care etc); household (repairs etc); living (environment etc)
to manage the household; to be the one in charge of the family; to call the shots; to be in charge
old and respected family; family whose members have been officials from generation to generation
next-door neighbor; neighboring household; adjacent country (short for next-door neighbor; neighboring household; adjacent country (short for 鄰接的國家|邻接的国家[lin2 jie1 de5 guo2 jia1]))
(of a wife) to return to her parental home; (fig.) to return to one's old place, job, school etc
to go back to one's roots; to return to one's native place; by ext. to join one's ancestors (i.e. to die)
sb with whom one is on familiar terms; sb from the same place (same house, same town etc); one of us
"mercenary expert", a person who is supposedly an independent expert, but receives payment for making comments favorable to a particular entity
housekeeper who looks after old people with no children or whose children do not live with them
to introduce oneself; originally a theatrical device in which a character explains his own role
the Hundred Schools of Thought, the various schools of thought and their exponents during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (770-220 BC)
incitement to subvert state power (criminal charge used to gag free speech)
rural household contract responsibility system, PRC government policy linking rural income to productivity
Proverbs (1)
even an honest and upright official will have difficulty resolving a family dispute (proverb)
Idioms (49)
family bankrupt and the people dead (idiom); ruined and orphaned; destitute and homeless
(lit.) each household provided for, enough for the individual (idiom); comfortably off
(lit.) family shames must not be spread abroad (idiom); fig. don't wash your dirty linen in public
(lit.) family shames must not be spread abroad (idiom); (fig.) don't wash your dirty linen in public
(lit.) each household provided for, enough for the individual (idiom); comfortably off
(lit.) enemies on a narrow road (idiom); fig. an inevitable clash between opposing factions
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
(lit.) as if enumerating one's family valuables (idiom); (fig.) to be very familiar with a matter
one who is cut off from others (idiom); one who has chosen to follow a solitary path; (can also be an indirect way of referring to an unmarried person)
to be in charge in one's own house (idiom); to be the master of one's own affairs
to get married and start a career (idiom); to settle down; to establish oneself
to bear the burden of a household (idiom); encumbered by a family; tied down by family obligations
to take all one's family along (idiom); encumbered by a family; tied down by family obligations
to take all one's family along (idiom); encumbered by a family; tied down by family obligations
a hundred schools of thought contend (idiom); refers to the classical philosophic schools of the Warring States period 475-221 BC
destiny will make enemies meet (idiom); (often said about lovers who have a disagreement)
five hundred years ago we were the same family (idiom) (said of persons with the same surname)
people who don't belong together, don't get to live together (idiom); marriages are predestined; people marry because they share common traits
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