The whole family was sick in bed.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
全家
whole family
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
whole family
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 全家 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 全家 appears in 14 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
My whole family's from Boston.
John cannot keep his family.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 全家.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 全家.
Directly before
- 我全家3
- 或者全家1
- 你全家1
- 养活全家1
- 让全家1
Directly after
- 全家都3
- 全家问好2
- 全家的2
- 全家围着1
- 全家大惊1
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 全家
What does 全家 mean in Chinese?
全家 (quánjiā) means whole family.
How do you pronounce 全家?
全家 is pronounced quánjiā.
Is 全家 an HSK word?
全家 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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