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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 return home
HSK 1
outside / outer surface / abroad / place other than one's home
HSK 1
home
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
to go out / to leave home / to go on a journey / away from home / (of a woman) to get married
HSK 2
(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
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *乡* | 乡* | *乡
country or countryside / native place / home village or town / township (PRC administrative unit)
HSK 5
Sino-foreign / Chinese-foreign / home and abroad
HSK 6
home / homeland
HSK 6
home page
HSK 7-9
fellow countryman (from the same village) / local people / villager / the folks back home
HSK 7-9
home-use / domestic / family expenses / housekeeping money
HSK 7-9
to settle / to set up home
HSK 7-9
to leave home / to go off / to run away
HSK 7-9
place to return to / home / final destination / ending
HSK 7-9
to call on sb / to drop in / to visit sb's home
HSK 7-9
folk remedy / home remedy
HSK 7-9
an ordinary meal / simple home cooking
HSK 7-9
nursing home
HSK 7-9
domestic and international; at home and abroad
HSK 7-9
to go home to visit one's family
HSK 7-9
to make one's home / to take shelter
Homer, poet of ancient Greece
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *宅* | 宅* | *宅
residence / (coll.) to stay in at home / to hang around at home
lit. to besiege and rescue 趙|赵 (idiom) / fig. to relieve a besieged ally by attacking the home base of the besiegers
fig. a tree may grow a thousand zhang high, but its leaves return to their roots (proverb) / fig. everything has its ancestral home / in old age, an expatriate returns home
your home (honorific)
home page (of a website) / title page / front page / first page / fig. beginning / cover letter
to study away from home or abroad (old)
home delivery of meal
time-sharing (shared use, e.g. of a holiday home) / (computing) time-sharing
to return home
to settle down / to set up a home
Homer's Odyssey
poor person's house / humble home
luxury home; mansion
householder who refuses to vacate his home despite pressure from property developers
home; residence / to stay at home (unemployed)
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
to live at home / to stay at home / home (schooling etc) / in-home (care etc) / household (repairs etc) / living (environment etc)
home town; native place
to return without any achievement (idiom); to go home with one's tail between one's legs
a long journey / far from home
to go home (to one's native country) / to return from abroad
person living or traveling far from home
empty nest / a home where the kids have grown up and moved out
one's home town or village
a prodigal son returned home is worth more than gold
guard home, defend the country (idiom); national defense
(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)
(sports) home ground; home field / (sports) home game / main venue (for a festival etc)
informal wear / home clothes (old) / women's underwear / lingerie
home loan
to visit a patient at home (of a doctor) / house call
to live away from home
home / residence / house
speech that grates on the ear (idiom); bitter truths / home truths (that one does not want to hear)
to avoid going home for the Chinese New Year (for any of various reasons: because one finds the festivities onerous in some way, or because it would be seen as inauspicious for one to attend, or, in former times, to avoid creditors, since it was the custom to have debts settled before New Year's Day, and once into the New Year, debtors got a reprieve)
to break into a home when no one is there (to steal)
to roam about / to wander without a home
lit. to come back to one's hometown in silken robes (idiom) / fig. to return home after making good / Taiwan pr. [yi4 jin3 huan2 xiang1]
to return to one's home town
simple home-style meal / common occurrence / nothing out of the ordinary
house / people's homes
to stay away from home / residence abroad / sojourn
Getting Home, 2007 PRC comedy-drama film directed by 張揚|张扬, starring 趙本山|赵本山
lit. a falling leaf returns to the roots (idiom) / fig. all things go back to their source eventually / in old age, an expatriate returns home
(courteous) home; residence (not one's own)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *媵* | 媵* | *媵
maid escorting bride to new home / concubine
copious / plentiful (of water) / surging (of waves) / refers to home village of first Han emperor 漢高祖|汉高祖 / fig. majestic
player whose turn comes next (in a game) / next one / my humble home
guests feel at home (in a hotel, guest house etc) / a home away from home
ordinary and mediocre (idiom); nothing to write home about
to lead a quiet and peaceful life in retirement / to stay home with nothing to do / to lead a solitary life
indulge in pleasure and forget home and duty (idiom)
destitute and homeless (idiom); forced from one's home and wandering about / displaced
to find a place where one can fit in / to make one's home / to seek shelter
wife's parents' home
ancestral home (town) / birthplace
eaves / roof (i.e. home)
one's ancestral home (registered place of family origin, typically inherited patrilineally and recorded in official documents)
disciple / follower / hanger-on (at an aristocrat's home)
lit. not putting a foot outside / to stay at home
(literary) to stay long in a place far from home / (literary) person who lives in an alien land
first return of bride to her parental home
old residence / former home
to follow up a victory and press home the attack / to pursue retreating enemy
to return home with honor
home village / one's native place
letter to or from home or family
home-loving / to feel a strong attachment to home life / to begrudge being away from home
to dump (selling abroad more cheaply than cost price at home)
domestic (animals) / home reared
to view death as a return home / to not be afraid of dying / to face death with equanimity (idiom)
poor person's house / humble home
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

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