CHINESE SCRIPT

CHINESE CHARACTER FORMATION & ETYMOLOGY

 

 

家

 

 

10 strokes ( 宀 )

ㄐlㄚ1, ㄐlㄝ, ㄍㄨ (jia1, jie5, gu1)

jiā, jie, gū

 

家 =  house, home, residence; family => an associative compound of pigs 豕 living under a roof 宀 (radical 40), which derives from the fact that in rural areas, pigs were often kept beneath the house, which was traditionally built on stilts, as protection against the elements

 

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