HSK 4 · Objects

家具 jiājù “furniture” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 家具 means

  1. furniture

Measure word 件 jiàn or 套 tào · 一件家具 yí jiàn jiājù

How to say 家具

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale家jiā1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale具jù4th tone, falling

家具 in a sentence

  1. 房子里家具太多了。

    Fángzi lǐ jiājù tài duō le.

    There is too much furniture in the house.

    Sentence #614448 from Tatoeba

  2. 你想要哪种风格的家具？

    Nǐ xiǎngyào nǎ zhǒng fēnggé de jiājù?

    What style of furniture would you like?

    Sentence #10192243 from Tatoeba

  3. 我们租了辆卡车来运我们的家具。

    Wǒmen zū le liàng kǎchē lái yùn wǒmen de jiājù.

    We hired a truck to move our furniture.

    Sentence #884628 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 家具 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 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.

The character 具 (jù) with each of its parts in a different colour
具jùtool
  • 目eye · mù
  • 一one · yī
  • 八eight · bā

How to write 家具

家 10 strokes · 具 8 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

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

Words related to 家具

Words with 家

家jiā · home家人jiārén · family member大家dàjiā · everyone国家guójiā · country画家huàjiā · painter搬家bānjiā · to move house作家zuòjiā · writer家庭jiātíng · family家务jiāwù · household duties家乡jiāxiāng · hometown

Words with 具

具备jùbèi · to possess具体jùtǐ · specific工具gōngjù · tool玩具wánjù · plaything文具wénjù · stationery (pens

More words: Everyday Things

过程guòchéng · course of events好处hǎochu · benefit号码hàomǎ · number盒子hézi · box镜子jìngzi · mirror距离jùlí · distance垃圾桶lājītǒng · rubbish bin老虎lǎohǔ · tiger

FAQs

家具 (jiājù) means “furniture”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it jiājù: jiā with a 1st tone, then jù with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 家具 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Use 件 (jiàn) or 套 (tào). For example, one furniture is 一件家具 (yí jiàn jiājù).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type jiaju with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 家具 from the suggestions. Typing jiaju into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
家具 is an HSK 4 word in the 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.