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在家

zài jiā

HSK 1 · word 453 of 3,000

Meaning

• to be at home
• (at a workplace) to be in (as opposed to being away on official business 出差[chu1 chai1])
• (Buddhism etc) to remain a layman (as opposed to becoming a monk or a nun 出家[chu1 jia1])

Example sentence

Characters in 在家

• 在 zài to exist; to be alive
• 家 jiā home

Learned around the same time

• 元 yuán currency unit (esp. Chinese yuan)
• 远 yuǎn far
• 月 yuè moon
• 再 zài again; once more; re-
• 再见 zài jiàn goodbye
• 早 zǎo early
• 早饭 zǎo fàn breakfast
• 早上 zǎo shang early morning
• 怎么 zěn me how?
• 站 zhàn station
• 找 zhǎo to try to find

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