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country; nation; state / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
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  *家* | 家* | *家
HSK 1
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  *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
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
everyone / influential family / great expert
HSK 2
whole family
HSK 2
author / CL: 個|个,
HSK 2
painter / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
expert; specialist
HSK 3
to move house; to relocate / to remove (sth)
HSK 3
native place / place of origin / home state or region
HSK 4
other people / sb else / he, she or they / I, me (referring to oneself as "one" or "people")
HSK 4
(old) butler; steward / manager; administrator; housekeeper / to manage a household
HSK 7-9
exclusive
HSK 7-9
factory; manufacturer / (coll.) a factory owner; the factory management
HSK 7-9
Confucian school, founded by Confucius 孔子 (551-479 BC) and Mencius 孟子 (c. 372-c. 289 BC)
HSK 7-9
winner
HSK 7-9
connoisseur; expert; veteran
HSK 7-9
to settle down and get married (of a man) / to become a recognized expert
HSK 7-9
loser (as opposed to winner 贏家|赢家)
HSK 7-9
polite term for old woman or man
HSK 7-9
FamilyMart (convenience store chain)
player (of a game) / enthusiast (audio, model planes etc)
merchant / business / enterprise
private / privately owned or managed
oneself and one's family / family background / pedigree / one's property / one's total assets
Hakka ethnic group, a subgroup of the Han that in the 13th century migrated from northern China to the south
royal / imperial household
family influential for generations / aristocratic family
buyer; purchaser
School of Agriculture, school of thought of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)
peasant family
to settle down / to set up a home
School of Logicians of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC), also called the School of Names
renowned expert / master (of an art or craft)
oneself / one's own family
household / dwelling / family / sb else's house / household business / house of woman's husband-to-be / CL: 戶|户,
Daoist School of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC), based on the teachings of Laozi or Lao-tze 老子 (c. 500 BC-) and Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子 (369-286 BC)
to manage the household / to be the one in charge of the family / to call the shots / to be in charge
IKEA, Swedish furniture retailer
to live at home / to stay at home / home (schooling etc) / in-home (care etc) / household (repairs etc) / living (environment etc)
Buddhism / Buddhist
next-door neighbor; neighboring household
to pass on through the generations
to separate and live apart / division of a large family into smaller groups
respectable family; decent family
the public / the state / society / the public purse
historian
the Legalist school of political philosophy, which rose to prominence in the Warring States period (475-221 BC) (The Legalists believed that social harmony could only be attained through strong state control, and advocated for a system of rigidly applied punishments and rewards for specific behaviors.) / a Legalist
preceding player (in a game)
restaurant / bartender / (old) wineshop / tavern
perfect / excellent / brought to the utmost degree
whole family / entire household
to play house
many schools of thought / many people or households
to start out by / to grow an enterprise beginning with / to begin one's career by
farmhouse / banker (gambling)
the School of the Military, one of the Hundred Schools of Thought 諸子百家|诸子百家 of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC)
military strategist in ancient China / military commander / soldier
husband's family (traditionally where the wife moves into)
Mohist School of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC), founded by the philosopher 墨子
emperor / government / official
the whole family / the same family / the family ... (when preceded by a family name) / group
parents of one's daughter-in-law or son-in-law / relatives by marriage
the Hundred Schools of Thought, the various schools of thought and their exponents during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (770-220 BC)
wife's family (before marriage)
to search a house and confiscate possessions
to housekeep; to run one's household
to look after the house / (of skill, ability) special / outstanding
residence / household / to reside
to squander a family fortune
to lay down a family fortune / to get rich / to become prosperous
to take care of one's family
enemy / foe
player whose turn comes next (in a game) / next one / my humble home
the whole family
wife's parents' home
enemy / foe / (in opera) sweetheart or destined love
see 苗族
(old) your servant (humble self-reference by young female)
home-loving / to feel a strong attachment to home life / to begrudge being away from home
cartoon writer (from Japanese mangaka)
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 enter monastic life; to become a monk or nun
to govern one's family / to manage one's household
a member of the same clan / a distant relative with the same family name
(old) shopkeeper; innkeeper / (dialect) shop; store
I / me / my / (often used in early vernacular literature)
I / me / we / my home / our house
to support a family / to raise a family
Qiaojia county in Zhaotong 昭通, Yunnan
master (i.e. employer) / landlord / boss
(idiom) to build up from nothing; to start from scratch
speculator
organizer of a gambling party who takes a cut of the winnings / banker (gambling) / preceding player (in a game) / (dialect) boss / proprietor
Miscellaneous School of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) whose leading advocate was Lü Buwei 呂不韋|吕不韦
(archaic) I; me (used by males during the Song and Yuan dynasties)
man's family (in marriage)
layman / layperson / original home of a monk

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