{"id":707,"date":"2021-01-27T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T19:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duchinese.net\/blog\/?p=707"},"modified":"2021-01-27T19:12:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T19:12:00","slug":"family-in-chinese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/duchinese.net\/blog\/2021\/01\/27\/family-in-chinese\/","title":{"rendered":"Family in Chinese"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The traditional Chinese culture is very family oriented with an individual&#8217;s family being of the utmost importance. The character for family or home is \u5bb6 pinyin: ji\u0101. The construction of this character is quite interesting. Over the top of the character is a roof. The rest of the character is \u8c55 pinyin:sh\u01d0 which is a character meaning pig. Anciently, if you had a roof over your head and owned a pig you had a home. A safe place to go to where you wouldn\u2019t go hungry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The character is very common and its uses are of great importance for anyone studying the language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are just some of the ways the character is used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>English<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Chinese<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Pinyin<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td> Family<\/td><td>\u5bb6\u5ead&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/td><td>ji\u0101 t\u00edng<\/td><\/tr><tr><td> Hometown<\/td><td>\u5bb6\u4e61<\/td><td>ji\u0101 xi\u0101ng<\/td><\/tr><tr><td> Furniture<\/td><td>\u5bb6\u5177&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/td><td>ji\u0101 j\u00f9<\/td><\/tr><tr><td> Family tree (genealogy)<\/td><td>\u5bb6\u8c31<\/td><td>ji\u0101 p\u01d4<\/td><\/tr><tr><td> Everybody<\/td><td>\u5927\u5bb6<\/td><td>d\u00e0 ji\u0101<\/td><\/tr><tr><td> Country (national family)<\/td><td>\u56fd\u5bb6<\/td><td>gu\u00f3 ji\u0101<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It also refers to a person who is proficient or employed in certain arts or professions<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>English<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Chinese<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Pinyin<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td> Musician<\/td><td>\u97f3\u4e50\u5bb6<\/td><td>y\u012bn yu\u00e8 ji\u0101<\/td><\/tr><tr><td> Artist (painter)<\/td><td>\u753b\u5bb6<\/td><td>hu\u00e0 ji\u0101<\/td><\/tr><tr><td> Expert<\/td><td>\u4e13\u5bb6<\/td><td>zhu\u0101n ji\u0101<\/td><\/tr><tr><td> Scientist<\/td><td>\u79d1\u5b66\u5bb6<\/td><td>k\u0113 xu\u00e9 ji\u0101<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There are also several popular phrases or sayings that use the character.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>English<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Chinese<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Pinyin<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td> Housewife<\/td><td>\u5bb6\u5ead\u4e3b\u5987&nbsp;<\/td><td>ji\u0101 t\u00edng zh\u01d4 f\u00f9<\/td><\/tr><tr><td> Home style cooking<\/td><td>\u5bb6\u5e38\u83dc<\/td><td>ji\u0101 ch\u00e1ng c\u00e0i<\/td><\/tr><tr><td> Family ugliness cannot be publicized. (Don\u2019t air your dirty laundry.)<\/td><td>\u5bb6\u4e11\u4e0d\u53ef\u5916\u626c<\/td><td>ji\u0101 ch\u01d2u b\u00f9 k\u011b w\u00e0i y\u00e1ng<\/td><\/tr><tr><td> Every family has its problems.<\/td><td>\u5bb6\u5bb6\u6709\u96be\u5ff5\u7684\u7ecf<\/td><td>ji\u0101 ji\u0101 y\u01d2u b\u011bn n\u00e1n ni\u00e0n de j\u012bng&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Family is important. Now that you know how to say family in Chinese, try learning some of the most common <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duchinese.net\/blog\/89-top-chinese-surnames\/\">Chinese family surnames<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duchinese.net\/lessons\/407-lili-s-siblings?from=course\">try reading this story in Chinese about siblings. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The traditional Chinese culture is very family oriented with an individual&#8217;s family being of the utmost importance. The character for family or home is \u5bb6 pinyin: ji\u0101. The construction of this character is quite interesting. Over the top of the character is a roof. The rest of the character is \u8c55 pinyin:sh\u01d0 which is a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[26],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/duchinese.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Jia-family-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/duchinese.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/duchinese.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/duchinese.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duchinese.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duchinese.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/duchinese.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duchinese.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/duchinese.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duchinese.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duchinese.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}