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
家人
jiārén
family member
Characters in this word
人 rén
- Strokes
- 2
- Radical
- 人 — man, person
- Made of
- 丿 slash ㇏
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
Example phrases
- 我的家人都在北京。 Wǒ de jiārén dōu zài Běijīng. My whole family is in Beijing.
- 我很爱我的家人。 Wǒ hěn ài wǒ de jiārén. I love my family very much.
- 家人对我很好。 Jiārén duì wǒ hěn hǎo. My family is very good to me.