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to return home
HSK 1
home
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *家* | 家* | *家
home / family / (polite) my (sister, uncle etc) / classifier for families or businesses / refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China / noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
to be at home / (at a workplace) to be in (as opposed to being away on official business 出差) / (Buddhism etc) to remain a layman (as opposed to becoming a monk or a nun 出家)
HSK 1
outside / outer surface / abroad / place other than one's home
HSK 1
to go out / to leave home / to go on a journey / away from home / (of a woman) to get married
HSK 2
Sino-foreign / Chinese-foreign / home and abroad
HSK 6
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *乡* | 乡* | *乡
country or countryside / native place / home village or town / township (PRC administrative unit)
HSK 5
(of a restaurant) to provide a takeout or home delivery meal / takeout (business) / takeout (meal)
HSK 2
to return to one's home country
HSK 2
home / homeland / native place / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
native place / place of origin / home state or region
HSK 4
nursing home
HSK 7-9
home / homeland
HSK 6
an ordinary meal / simple home cooking
HSK 7-9
to call on sb / to drop in / to visit sb's home
HSK 7-9
home-use / domestic / family expenses / housekeeping money
HSK 7-9
to dump (selling abroad more cheaply than cost price at home)
home page
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *宅* | 宅* | *宅
residence / (coll.) to stay in at home / to hang around at home
disciple / follower / hanger-on (at an aristocrat's home)
Mt Wutai in Shanxi 山西, one of the Four Sacred Mountains and home of the Bodhimanda of Manjushri 文殊
home delivery of meal
home page (of a website) / title page / front page / first page / fig. beginning / cover letter
silent; still; quiet / to mourn in silence; to observe silence / (neologism c. 2022) to stay at home during a pandemic
to settle / to set up home
HSK 7-9
(of a groom) to fetch one's bride from her parents' home to escort her to the wedding ceremony / (fig.) to take as one's wife; to marry (a woman)
a prodigal son returned home is worth more than gold
Freddie Mac, US mortgage company / formerly Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.
former residence / one's original home
(PRC law) residential surveillance / to order sb to stay at their home, or a designated location, under surveillance
to leave home / to go off / to run away
HSK 7-9
to hit the target (esp. in argument); to strike home
simple home-style meal / common occurrence / nothing out of the ordinary
fellow countryman (from the same village) / local people / villager / the folks back home
HSK 7-9
domestic and international / at home and abroad
home loan
place to return to / home / final destination / ending
HSK 7-9
to visit sb at home
(sports) home ground; home field / (sports) home game / main venue (for a festival etc)
time-sharing (shared use, e.g. of a holiday home) / (computing) time-sharing
copious / plentiful (of water) / surging (of waves) / refers to home village of first Han emperor 漢高祖|汉高祖 / fig. majestic
foreign land / a place far from home
a funeral home; an undertaker's
folk remedy / home remedy
HSK 7-9
indulge in pleasure and forget home and duty (idiom)
to go home to visit one's family
HSK 7-9
made in China / home-grown (talent)
home run (baseball)
I / me / we / my home / our house
home pregnancy test kit
to hit home on the evils of the day (idiom); fig. to hit a current political target / to hit the nub of the matter
person living or traveling far from home
(of a wife) to return to her parental home / (fig.) to return to one's old place, job, school etc
to live at home / to stay at home / home (schooling etc) / in-home (care etc) / household (repairs etc) / living (environment etc)
congratulations on house-moving or promotion (idiom); Best wishes for your new home!
to stay at home while one's husband is away / grass widow
domestic and international; at home and abroad
HSK 7-9
houses / homes
to follow up a victory and press home the attack / to pursue retreating enemy
dinner party held in one's home / family reunion dinner
to hit the target and do real damage (idiom) / fig. to hit where it hurts / fig. to hit home / an argument that hits the nail on the head
(dialect) to go home; to return home
a learned person need not leave his home to know what's going on in the world (idiom)
guard home, defend the country (idiom); national defense
to settle down / to set up a home
(idiom) to be nothing to write home about
dining room for young schoolchildren unable to go home for lunch
to have a sentimental attachment to (a place) / to miss (one's ancestral home etc) / to be nostalgic about
if an official does not put the people first, he might as well go home and sell sweet potatoes
(Tw) to provide a service at the customer's home; to make a house call
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
to make one's home / to take shelter
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *府* | 府* | *府
seat of government / government repository (archive) / official residence / mansion / presidential palace / (honorific) Your home / prefecture (from Tang to Qing times)
one's home town or village
unilateral / one-sided / home remedy / folk prescription(same as 丹方) / single-drug prescription (same as 奇方, one of the seven kinds of prescriptions of Chinese medicine 七方) / metaphorically. a good solution
eaves / roof (i.e. home)
to plunder the homes of the wealthy for food (in times of famine) / (of sb who has no income) to rely on others / to demand a "contribution" or "loan" from a business or wealthy individual
home team (sports)
home-style tofu
an ugly wife is a treasure at home (idiom)
walk-off home run
ordinary and mediocre (idiom); nothing to write home about
lit. if you can't eat it all, you'll have to take it home (idiom) / fig. you'll have to take the consequences
senior citizens' home; old folks' home
(coll.) meek and civil in public, but a tyrant at home
ancestral home (town) / birthplace
new residence / new home
lit. (may the) five blessings descend upon this home (namely: longevity, wealth, health, virtue, and a natural death) / (an auspicious saying for the Lunar New Year)
home / residence / house
stay-at-home dad
to return home
everyday robe worn at home in ancient times / robe worn by priests, monks and scholars
to make one's home in a place / to settle
home cinema; home theater
to dismiss military hierarchy using wine cups / cf Song founding Emperor Song Taizu 宋太祖 holds a banquet in 961 and persuades his senior army commanders to go home to their provinces
better to go home and weave a net than to stand by the pond longing for fish (idiom) / one should take practical steps to achieve one's aim
lit. to besiege and rescue 趙|赵 (idiom) / fig. to relieve a besieged ally by attacking the home base of the besiegers
dwelling place / home
unpleasant to hear / grates on the ear (of home truths)

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