在家
Meaning
- to be at home
- (at a workplace) to be in (as opposed to being away on official business 出差)
- (Buddhism etc) to remain a layman (as opposed to becoming a monk or a nun 出家)
Example sentence
他不在家。
He's not home.
Characters in 在家
在 at plus 家 home. 在 is the all-purpose location verb and preposition, and here the pair means to be in.