Kanji1 / 10
家 kanji
house, home, family, professional, expert, performer
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 10
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
カケ
Kun readings
いえやうち
Words with 家
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —廃家deserted house; ruined house; abolishing one's own family line in order to join another (under pre-1947 Japanese law); extinct family
- —朝家the imperial family or household
- —諸家various families; various schools of thought
- —家父one's father
- —家禄hereditary stipend
- —家塾government-backed school operated by a scholar out of his home
- —婚家one's in-laws (esp. a woman's in-laws)
- —私家private house; one's own house
- —道家Taoist
- —檀家family which supports a temple; parishioner
- —養家adoptive family
- —漁家fishing household
- —富家wealthy family
- —娼家brothel
- —家譜pedigree; genealogy
- —斉家governing one's family
- —田家rural cottage
- —家蚕domesticated silkworm
- —百家many scholars
- —法家lawyer; legalism (school of Chinese philosophy)