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Kanji Information Sheet for 家 ( PDF version )
Bushu (Radical) Info: 宀 (うかんむり) – crown
Henshall Mnemonic: house looking like pig-sty
Levels: JLPT N4 | JLPT 3 (old) | Grade 2
Frequency: #133 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Frequency: #133 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Common Words and/or Phrases Using this Kanji:
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JLPT N5 Words
- 家 [いえ]
(n) house [K] [D] [Jisho] - 家 [うち]
(n) house (one's own) [K] [D] [Jisho] - 家族 [かぞく]
(n) family; members of a family [K] [D] [Jisho] - 家庭 [かてい]
(n) home; family; household [K] [D] [Jisho]
JLPT N4 Words
JLPT N3 Words
- 家具 [かぐ]
(n) furniture [K] [D] [Jisho] - 一家 [いっか]
(n) a house; a home; a family; a household; one's family; one's folks; a style [K] [D] [Jisho] - 家事 [かじ]
(n) housework; domestic chores [K] [D] [Jisho] - 国家 [こっか]
(n) state; country; nation [K] [D] [Jisho] - 家賃 [やちん]
(n) rent [K] [D] [Jisho] - 作家 [さっか]
(n) author; writer; novelist; artist [K] [D] [Jisho] - 農家 [のうか]
(n) farmer; farm family [K] [D] [Jisho] - 画家 [がか]
(n) painter; artist [K] [D] [Jisho]
JLPT N2 Words
- 家 [け]
(suf) house; family [K] [D] [Jisho] - 家屋 [かおく]
(n) house; building [K] [D] [Jisho] - 家主 [やぬし]
(n) landlord [K] [D] [Jisho] - 貸家 [かしや]
(n) house for rent [K] [D] [Jisho]
JLPT N1 Words
- 大家 [たいか]
(n) expert [K] [D] [Jisho] - 家計 [かけい]
(n) household economy; family finances [K] [D] [Jisho] - 家出 [いえで]
(n,vs) running away from home; leaving home [K] [D] [Jisho] - 家畜 [かちく]
(n) domestic animals; livestock; cattle [K] [D] [Jisho] - 家来 [けらい]
(n) retainer; retinue; servant [K] [D] [Jisho] - 実家 [じっか]
(n) (one's parents') home [K] [D] [Jisho] - 実業家 [じつぎょうか]
(n) industrialist; businessman [K] [D] [Jisho]
Other Popular Words Not Classified by JLPT
- 楽天家 [らくてんか]
(n) optimist; easy-going person [K] [D] [Jisho] - 核家族 [かくかぞく]
(n) nuclear family [K] [D] [Jisho] - 持ち家 [もちいえ]
(n) one's (own) house [K] [D] [Jisho] - 大家族 [だいかぞく]
(n) extended family [K] [D] [Jisho] - 隣家 [りんか]
(n) neighbouring house [K] [D] [Jisho] - 芸術家 [げいじゅつか]
(n) artist [K] [D] [Jisho] - 演出家 [えんしゅつか]
(n) producer; director [K] [D] [Jisho] - 本家 [ほんけ]
(n) head house (family); birthplace; originator [K] [D] [Jisho] - 宗家 [そうけ]
(n) head of family; originator [K] [D] [Jisho] - 活動家 [かつどうか]
(n) (anti-war) activist [K] [D] [Jisho] - 政治家 [せいじか]
(n) politician; statesman [K] [D] [Jisho] - 小説家 [しょうせつか]
(n) novelist; fiction writer [K] [D] [Jisho] - 家業 [かぎょう]
(n) one's father's occupation [K] [D] [Jisho] - 家系 [かけい]
(n) family lineage [K] [D] [Jisho] - 専門家 [せんもんか]
(n) specialist [K] [D] [Jisho] - 資本家 [しほんか]
(n) capitalist [K] [D] [Jisho] - 家計簿 [かけいぼ]
(n) household account book [K] [D] [Jisho] - 家元 [いえもと]
(n) head of a school (of music, dance); head family of a school [K] [D] [Jisho] - 家裁 [かさい]
(n) family court [K] [D] [Jisho] - 家財 [かざい]
(n) household belongings (goods) [K] [D] [Jisho] - 我が家 [わがや]
(n) our house; our home [K] [D] [Jisho] - 家人 [かじん]
(n) the family; one's folks [K] [D] [Jisho] - 家政 [かせい]
(n) household economy [K] [D] [Jisho] - 家政婦 [かせいふ]
(n) housekeeper; maid [K] [D] [Jisho] - 生家 [せいか]
(n) (parents') home [K] [D] [Jisho]
Acknowledgments
The sofware used to generate this kanji information uses the EDICT and KANJIDIC files. These files are the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group at Monash University and are used in conformance with the Group's license.NOTE: I converted the sources just mentioned years ago and have never really updated so there may be some missing or incorrect information that has been addressed in the original sources but not here.
The first Stroke Order image used on this page is courtesy of Ulrich Apel's excellent open source KanjiVG project. The second image is from the folks at the excellent Jisho Japanese-English dictionary site and it too is based on KanjiVG.
Classifying the kanji and popular vocabulary by the new JLPT levels was done by consulting Jonathan Waller‘s JLPT Resources page, renshuu, Wictionary, and Nihongo Ichiban.
The Henshall Mnemonics are the copyright of Tuttle Publishing and are the result of the hard work by Professor Henshall. See the list I used here.
If you are curious about the lexicography shown in the word definitions, visit the WWWJDIC abbreviations and codes guide and the JMdict/Edict Lexicographical details page.