家 jiā
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 宀 — roof
- Made of
- 宀 roof 豕 pig, boar
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
家里
jiālǐ
at home, in the family
Characters in this word
里 lǐ
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 里 — unit of distance equal to 0.5km
- Made of
- 田 field, farm, arable land 土 soil, earth
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 家里没有人。 Jiā li méiyǒu rén. There's nobody at home.
- 我家里有四口人。 Wǒ jiālǐ yǒu sì kǒu rén. There are four people in my family.
- 我们都在家里。 Wǒmen dōu zài jiālǐ. We're all at home.