HSK 3.0 Level 3 · Everyday Verbs

搬家 bānjiā “to move house” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 搬家 means

  1. to move house
  2. to relocate
  3. to remove (sth)

How to say 搬家

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale搬bān1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale家jiā1st tone, high and level

搬家 in a sentence

  1. 我下个月要搬家了。

    Wǒ xià ge yuè yào bānjiā le.

    I’m moving house next month.

    Sentence #425566 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我们去年搬家了。

    Wǒmen qùnián bānjiā le.

    We moved house last year.

    Sentence #2737431 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  3. 下这么大的雨，也帮我们搬家，他人真好！

    Xià zhème dà de yǔ, yě bāng wǒmen bānjiā, tā rén zhēn hǎo!

    It was pouring, and he still helped us move house – he’s so kind!

    Sentence #417788 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 搬家 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 搬 (bān) with each of its parts in a different colour
搬bānto move
  • 扌hand form of 手 · shǒuMeaning part
  • 般sort · bānSound part

扌 hints at the meaning (hand); 般 (bān) hints at the sound. Compare it with bān.

The character 家 (jiā) with each of its parts in a different colour
家jiāhome
  • 宀roof · miánMeaning part
  • 豕pig · shǐSound part

宀 hints at the meaning (roof); 豕 (shǐ) hints at the sound. Compare it with jiā.

Memory aidA pig 豕 under a roof 宀: a home, a family.

How to write 搬家

搬 13 strokes · 家 10 strokes

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搬家 (bānjiā) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 搬家 (bānjiā). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 搬家

Words with 搬

搬bān · to move

Words with 家

家jiā · home家人jiārén · family member大家dàjiā · everyone国家guójiā · country画家huàjiā · painter作家zuòjiā · writer家具jiājù · furniture家庭jiātíng · family家务jiāwù · household duties家乡jiāxiāng · hometown

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FAQs

搬家 (bānjiā) means “to move house” or “to relocate”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it bānjiā: bān with a 1st tone, then jiā with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 搬家 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type banjia with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 搬家 from the suggestions. Typing banjia into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
搬家 is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 5 word list. It is not on the older HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.