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家人

jiā rén

HSK 3.0 level 1 2-character word

家人 (jiā rén) means "family; family members". It is an HSK 3.0 level 1 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 家人 means

1. family member
2. oldservant

The characters in 家人

• 家jiāused in 家伙
• 人rénperson; people

Example sentences

• 你的家人好幺？
  Is your family doing well?
• 我为我家人奋斗。
  Wǒ wèi wǒ jiārén fèndòu.
  I struggle for my family.

Words containing 家人

• 一家人yī jiā rénthe whole family; (lit. and fig.) members of the same family
• 出家人chū jiā rénmonk; nun (Buddhist or Daoist)
• 客家人Kè jiā rénHakka people
• 自家人zì jiā rénsb with whom one is on familiar terms; sb from the same place…
• 赵家人Zhào jiā rén(neologism 2015) the Zhao family (derogatory term for those who hold power in the PRC)
• 一家人不说两家话yī jiā rén bù shuō liǎng jiā huàlit. family members speak frankly with one another, not courteously, as if they were from…
• 不是一家人不进一家门bù shì yī jiā rén bù jìn yī jiā ménpeople who don't belong together, don't get to live together (idiom)…

Sounds the same

Read jiā rén, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 佳人beautiful woman
• 嘉仁Yoshihito, personal name of the Taishō 大正

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read jiā rén correctly.
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