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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

家里

jiālǐ

home

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

home

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 家里 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 家里 appears in 132 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

你在家里吗?nǐ zài jiā lǐ ma?

Are you at home?

你家里有书吗?nǐ jiā lǐ yǒu shū ma?

Are there books in your house?

家里有没有人?jiā lǐ yǒu méi yǒu rén?

Is anybody home?

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 家里.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 家里.

Directly before

  • 在家里64
  • 留在家里10
  • 我家里9
  • 你家里4
  • 他家里3

Directly after

  • 家里的11
  • 家里了8
  • 家里吗5
  • 家里有5
  • 家里吃饭4
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 家里

What does 家里 mean in Chinese?

家里 (jiālǐ) means home.

How do you pronounce 家里?

家里 is pronounced jiālǐ.

Is 家里 an HSK word?

家里 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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