There's a convenience store diagonally across the street.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
一家
the whole family
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
the whole family
02
the same family
03
the family... (when preceded by a family name)
04
group
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 一家 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 一家 appears in 113 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Currently, my sister works as a cashier at a supermarket.
The groom works for a company now, and the bride is our teacher.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 一家.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 一家.
Directly before
- 在一家21
- 有一家13
- 是一家10
- 了一家7
- 为一家5
Directly after
- 一家公司6
- 一家书店5
- 一家餐厅4
- 一家医院4
- 一家好3
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 一家
What does 一家 mean in Chinese?
一家 (yījiā) means the whole family.
How do you pronounce 一家?
一家 is pronounced yījiā.
Is 一家 an HSK word?
一家 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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