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Mythic Mandarin

一家 (yī jiā): meaning and stroke order

一家 (yī jiā) means the whole family, the same family, the family ... (when preceded by a family name), group.

一家

Simplified
一家
Traditional
一家 (same form)
Pinyin
yī jiā

Stroke order of 一家

一

  • yī one; single
  • 1 stroke

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 一家

  1. yī jiā
    • the whole family
    • the same family
    • the family ... (when preceded by a family name)
    • group

Radicals of the characters

一
Radical 一 (Kangxi radical 1) · 1 stroke
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.

一家 in our stories

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  • 一家二十多口人要吃饭，他只好向官府要了一块荒地，自己开荒种地。因为这块地在城东的山坡上，他就给自己起了个号，叫“东坡居士”。

    yìjiā èrshí duō kǒu rén yào chīfàn tā zhǐhǎo xiàng guānfǔ yào le yí kuài huāngdì zìjǐ kāihuāng zhòng dì yīnwèi zhè kuài dì zài chéng dōng de shānpō shàng tā jiù gěi zìjǐ qǐ le gè hào jiào Dōngpō jūshì

    With a household of over twenty to feed, he had to ask the authorities for a plot of waste land and clear it to farm himself. Because it lay on a hillside east of the town, he gave himself a name: "the Lay Buddhist of the Eastern Slope", Dongpo.

    From the story Neither wind and rain nor sunshine HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 一家

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).