作家
Meaning
- author
Measure word
个 gè or 位 wèi
Example sentence
他是作家。
He's an author.
Characters in 作家
- 作 zuò to do, to make; a work
- 家 jiā home
作 to compose plus 家, which here marks a practitioner rather than a household. 画家 and 科学家 use the same suffix.