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Mythic Mandarin

家人 (jiā rén): meaning and stroke order

家人 (jiā rén) means family member, (old) servant.

家人

Simplified
家人
Traditional
家人 (same form)
Pinyin
jiā rén

Stroke order of 家人

家

  • jiā used in 傢伙|家伙[jia1 huo5] and 傢俱|家俱[jia1 ju4]
  • jiā home; family
  • 10 strokes
  • Traditional form: 傢

Stroke by stroke

人

  • rén person; people; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
  • 2 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 家人

  1. jiā rén
    • family member
    • (old) servant

Radicals of the characters

家
Radical 宀 (Kangxi radical 40) · 10 strokes · 宀 on top, 豕 below
人
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 2 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

家人 in our stories

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  • 接着，白骨精又变成找女儿的老太太、找家人的老爷爷，每一次都被悟空一棒打跑。

    jiēzhe Báigǔjīng yòu biànchéng zhǎo nǚ'ér de lǎo tàitai zhǎo jiārén de lǎoyéye měi yí cì dōu bèi Wùkōng yí bàng dǎ pǎo

    Next the demon became an old woman searching for her daughter, then an old man searching for his family, and each time Wukong drove her off with one blow.

    From the story Monkey strikes the White Bone Demon three times HSK 6

  • 石青山被开除了，从此再也没有上过船。直到去世，他都不肯跟家人提起那天晚上的事。

    Shí Qīngshān bèi kāichú le cóngcǐ zài yě méiyǒu shàng guò chuán zhídào qùshì tā dōu bù kěn gēn jiārén tíqǐ nà tiān wǎnshang de shì

    Shi Qingshan was dismissed and never went to sea again. Until the day he died he refused to talk to his family about that night.

    From the story The storm that never was HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 家人

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).