回家

Character by character

• 回huí6 strokesHSK 1 traditional 迴return, turn around; a time
• 家jiā10 strokesHSK 1 traditional 傢house, home, residence; family

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 回家. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 家jiāHSK 1

  home; family; (polite) my (sister, uncle etc); classifier for families or businesses; refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China; noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian

• 大家dà jiāHSK 2

  everyone; influential family; great expert

• 回huíHSK 1

  to circle; to go back; to turn around; to answer; to return; to revolve; Hui ethnic group (Chinese Muslims); time; classifier for acts of a play; section or chapter (of a classic book)

• 国家guó jiāHSK 1

  country; nation; state

• 回来huí laiHSK 1

  to return; to come back

• 家庭jiā tíngHSK 2

  family; household

• 回到huí dàoHSK 1

  to return to

• 家里jiā lǐHSK 1

  home

• 专家zhuān jiāHSK 3

  expert; specialist

• 回答huí dáHSK 1

  to reply; to answer; reply; answer

• 回去huí quHSK 1

  to return; to go back

• 家人jiā rénHSK 1

  family member; (old) servant

• 家伙jiā huoHSK 7

  household dish, implement or furniture; domestic animal; (coll.) guy; chap; weapon

• 人家rén jiāHSK 4

  household; dwelling; family; sb else's house; household business; house of woman's husband-to-be

• 回忆huí yìHSK 5

  to recall; memories

• 在家zài jiāHSK 1

  to be at home; (at a workplace) to be in (as opposed to being away on official business 差); (Buddhism etc) to remain a layman (as opposed to becoming a monk or a nun 家)

• 回复huí fùHSK 4

  to reply; to recover; to return (to a previous condition); Re: in reply to (email)

• 家长jiā zhǎngHSK 2

  head of a household; family head; patriarch; parent or guardian of a child

• 家族jiā zúHSK 7

  family; clan

• 回头huí tóuHSK 5

  to turn round; to turn one's head; later; by and by

• 作家zuò jiāHSK 2

  author

• 回报huí bàoHSK 5

  (in) return; reciprocation; payback; retaliation; to report back; to reciprocate

• 科学家kē xué jiāHSK 2

  scientist

• 返回fǎn huíHSK 5

  to return to; to come (or go) back