I am at home.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
在家
to be at home
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to be at home
02
(at a workplace) to be in (as opposed to being away on official business 出差 chūchāi)
03
(Buddhism etc) to remain a layman (as opposed to becoming a monk or a nun 出家 chūjiā)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 在家 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 在家 appears in 158 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Father is away from home.
He will be at home tomorrow.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 在家.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 在家.
Directly before
- 不在家35
- 你在家13
- 会在家8
- 待在家7
- 我在家7
Directly after
- 在家吗24
- 在家的4
- 在家休息3
- 在家吃2
- 在家练习2
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 在家
What does 在家 mean in Chinese?
在家 (zàijiā) means to be at home.
How do you pronounce 在家?
在家 is pronounced zàijiā.
Is 在家 an HSK word?
在家 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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