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Family member in Chinese

family member · HSK 1

家人 jiā rén

  1. 家 jiā home
  2. 人 rén person

Counted with 个: 一个家人 yí gè jiārén

春节我要回去看家人。 I'm going back to see my family for Spring Festival.

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How do you say family member in Chinese?

Family member in Chinese is 家人 (jiā rén). You can also say 亲人 (qīn rén), 家属 (jiā shǔ).

Which word should I use?

Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.

Where do these words come from?

The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.

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