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HSK
home
HSK 1
to return home
HSK 1
outside / outer surface / abroad / place other than one's 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
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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 to one's home country
HSK 2
(of a restaurant) to provide a takeout or home delivery meal / takeout (business) / takeout (meal)
HSK 2
to go out / to leave home / to go on a journey / away from home / (of a woman) to get married
HSK 2
home / homeland / native place / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
native place / place of origin / home state or region
HSK 4
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  *鄉* | 鄉* | *鄉
country or countryside / native place / home village or town / township (PRC administrative unit)
HSK 5
home / homeland
HSK 6
Sino-foreign / Chinese-foreign / home and abroad
HSK 6
home-use / domestic / family expenses / housekeeping money
HSK 7-9
to leave home / to go off / to run away
HSK 7-9
home page
HSK 7-9
domestic and international; at home and abroad
HSK 7-9
fellow countryman (from the same village) / local people / villager / the folks back home
HSK 7-9
place to return to / home / final destination / ending
HSK 7-9
to go home to visit one's family
HSK 7-9
to settle / to set up home
HSK 7-9
nursing home
HSK 7-9
to call on sb / to drop in / to visit sb's home
HSK 7-9
an ordinary meal / simple home cooking
HSK 7-9
folk remedy / home remedy
HSK 7-9
home; residence / to stay at home (unemployed)
at home wherever one is (idiom); ready to adapt / flexible / to accept circumstances with good will
local autonomy / home rule
home computer
my humble home
home page (of a website) / title page / front page / first page / fig. beginning / cover letter
to live at home / to stay at home / home (schooling etc) / in-home (care etc) / household (repairs etc) / living (environment etc)
(sports) home ground; home field / (sports) home game / main venue (for a festival etc)
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  *宅* | 宅* | *宅
residence / (coll.) to stay in at home / to hang around at home
a prodigal son returned home is worth more than gold
house / people's homes
to study away from home or abroad (old)
to stay away from home / residence abroad / sojourn
Homer's Odyssey
to settle down / to set up a home
to return to one's home town
home run (baseball)
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  *府* | 府* | *府
seat of government / government repository (archive) / official residence / mansion / presidential palace / (honorific) Your home / prefecture (from Tang to Qing times)
(of a wife) to return to her parental home / (fig.) to return to one's old place, job, school etc
home cooking
foreign land / a place far from home
new residence / new home
to dump (selling abroad more cheaply than cost price at home)
(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)
eaves / roof (i.e. home)
the way back / one's journey home
to leave home to make one's way in the world / to leave the life one knows to seek success
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
silent; still; quiet / to mourn in silence; to observe silence / (neologism c. 2022) to stay at home during a pandemic
(polite) your home / residence
to linger / to remain enjoying oneself and forget to go home
copious / plentiful (of water) / surging (of waves) / refers to home village of first Han emperor 漢高祖|汉高祖 / fig. majestic
lit. not putting a foot outside / to stay at home
guests feel at home (in a hotel, guest house etc) / a home away from home
nursing home / old people's home
(dialect) old people's home; nursing home
to hasten home for the funeral of a parent or grandparent
home-loving / to feel a strong attachment to home life / to begrudge being away from home
one's home town or village
home village / one's native place
to follow up a victory and press home the attack / to pursue retreating enemy
It's all exaggeration, you don't need to take it seriously / a fuss about nothing / nothing to write home about
(baseball) home base; home plate
(literary) to leave home to pursue studies in (a distant place)
lit. if you can't eat it all, you'll have to take it home (idiom) / fig. you'll have to take the consequences
to go home (to one's native country) / to return from abroad
a long journey / far from home
congratulations on house-moving or promotion (idiom); Best wishes for your new home!
your home (honorific)
to visit a patient at home (of a doctor) / house call
to return without any achievement (idiom); to go home with one's tail between one's legs
ordinary and mediocre (idiom); nothing to write home about
(idiom) to be nothing to write home about
senior citizens' home; old folks' home
to return home with honor
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
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
with one's heart set on speeding home (idiom)
old residence / former 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]
dwelling place / home
to stay at home while one's husband is away / grass widow
to roam about / to wander without a home
(of a married woman) to stay home alone
to break into a house when nobody is home
to arrive home / facing one's home / home-coming / (soccer) facing the goalmouth
to visit sb at home
to make one's home in a place / to settle
to return home (after a lifetime's absence) / to go back to one's roots
a falling leaf returns to the roots (idiom); everything has its ancestral home / In old age, an expatriate longs to return home.
lit. to besiege and rescue 趙|赵 (idiom) / fig. to relieve a besieged ally by attacking the home base of the besiegers
door and window / the home
prefabricated building / prefab / mobile home / caravan / trailer
householder who refuses to vacate his home despite pressure from property developers

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