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家 10 strokes

家 jiā — home; family

10 strokes · radical 宀 · HSK 1

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A way to remember it

A roof, 宀, drawn over a pig, 豕. In an early farming society a household was exactly that: a shelter with the animals kept inside it.

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A roof, 宀, drawn over a pig, 豕.

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