家
Meanings · gaa1
- 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 Mandarin classifier: 个
- house
- residence
- side
- party
- a triad family
Meanings · gu1
- an alternative form for the word姑, aunt
Meanings · ze1
- used as an expletive at the end of a sentence
About these definitions
Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.
Mandarin ↔ Cantonese
- Cantonese屋企↔Mandarin家jiā
Source note
CC-CEDICT line 35397: (Cantonese) home; family (Mandarin equivalent: 家[jia1])
Only equivalences a source states in its own words (“Mandarin equivalent”, “particle equivalent to”). Not a translation table: usage, register and senses can differ.
Reading & tones
Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.
Same syllable, six tones
Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.
Written characters
Both source spellings are represented. Written membership is not an etymological or semantic claim.
Mandarin comparison · separate source entries
CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:
- 家 jiā CC-CEDICT · Mandarinhome; 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; Classifier: 個 gè
A separate source entry, shown for comparison. The same characters can carry different senses in Mandarin and in Cantonese; zimai does not align these senses.
CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: jia1. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
Look up this spelling in the Mandarin dictionary ↗Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 15 senses · 3 Cantonese readings
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
gaa1 · gu1 · ze1
Cantonese word readings for 家. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character · Etymology 1
- home
- family; household (Classifier: 頭／头 c)
- (polite, for family member) my
- domesticated; domestic
- Classifier for families, businesses and companies.
- school of thought; philosophical school
- (historical, obsolete) fief of ministers or senior officials
- Suffix denoting a person with a certain occupation or social standing. -er
- Suffix denoting specialist in a certain activity or field. -ist; -er
- (in a game) party; side
- Suffix used after a noun to specify a type of person.
- a surname
character · Etymology 1
- (Southern Min) only used in 家己 (ka-kī)
character · Etymology 1
- (Southern Min) only used in 私家
character · Etymology 4
- only used in 大家 (dàgū)
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