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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

想家

xiǎngjiā

homesick

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

homesick

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 想家 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 想家 appears in 7 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

想家吗?xiǎng jiā ma?

Are you homesick?

我很想家。wǒ hěn xiǎng jiā。

I was so homesick.

他是不是还想家?tā shì bú shì hái xiǎng jiā?

He's still homesick, isn't he?

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 想家.

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

Directly before

  • 很想家2
  • 我想家1
  • 她想家1
  • 因为想家1
  • 还想家1

Directly after

  • 想家了2
  • 想家吗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 想家

What does 想家 mean in Chinese?

想家 (xiǎngjiā) means homesick.

How do you pronounce 想家?

想家 is pronounced xiǎngjiā.

Is 想家 an HSK word?

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

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