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Mythic Mandarin

人家 (rén jiā): meaning and stroke order

人家 (rén jiā) means household, dwelling, family, sb else's house, household business.

人家

Simplified
人家
Traditional
人家 (same form)
Pinyin
rén jiā · rén jia

Stroke order of 人家

人

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

Stroke by stroke

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

Meaning of 人家

  1. rén jiā
    • household
    • dwelling
    • family
    • sb else's house
    • household business
    • house of woman's husband-to-be
    • CL:戶|户[hu4],家[jia1]
  2. rén jia
    • other people
    • sb else
    • he, she or they
    • I, me (referring to oneself as "one" or "people")

Radicals of the characters

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

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.

人家 in our stories

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  • 有一户人家的族谱上，竟然也记着一句话：“光绪某年大饥，赖米店主人暗中接济，得以活命。”

    yǒu yí hù rénjiā de zúpǔ shàng jìngrán yě jì zhe yí jù huà Guāngxù mǒu nián dà jī lài mǐ diàn zhǔrén ànzhōng jiējì déyǐ huómìng

    In one family's genealogy there was, astonishingly, this line: "In a year of great famine under Guangxu, we survived thanks to the secret help of the rice-shop owner."

    From the story Words written in rice water HSK 7–9 · Level 7

  • 从此，丝绸的秘密慢慢传向了世界。可是在中国许多地方，每年春天，养蚕的人家还是会先祭拜嫘祖，再开始一年的工作。

    cóngcǐ sīchóu de mìmì mànmàn chuán xiàng le shìjiè kěshì zài Zhōngguó xǔduō dìfang měi nián chūntiān yǎng cán de rénjiā háishi huì xiān jìbài Léizǔ zài kāishǐ yì nián de gōngzuò

    From then on the secret of silk slowly spread across the world. Yet in many parts of China, every spring, silkworm-raising families still first honour Leizu before starting the year's work.

    From the story Leizu and the silkworm HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 人家

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).