Household in Chinese
household · HSK 4
家庭
- 家 home
- 庭 courtyard
Counted with 个: 一个家庭
他有一个幸福的家庭。 He has a happy family.
Other ways to say household
More words with 家 or 庭
How do you say household in Chinese?
Household in Chinese is 家庭 (jiā tíng). You can also say 户 (hù), 人家 (rén jiā), 家 (jiā).
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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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.