Sentence #6169159 from Tatoeba · translation adapted
How 家人 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.
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.
人rénperson; people
人 is a single shape of 2 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.
Memory aidA person walking, seen from the side: two legs.
How to write 家人
家 10 strokes · 人 2 strokes
Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.
Stroke order chart for 家人 (jiārén). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.
家人 (jiārén) means “family member” or “family”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 1 word.
Say it jiārén: jiā with a 1st tone, then rén with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 家人 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type jiaren with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 家人 from the suggestions. Typing jiaren into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
家人 is an HSK 3.0 Level 1 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 1 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.
家jiā1st tone, high and level
人rén2nd tone, rising
