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jiā home, family

10 strokes

Where the shape comes from

A pig, 豕, under a roof, 宀. In early farming households the pig lived at home too.

roof
pig

Write it

Watch the order first, then trace it with the guide, then write it from memory. The model comes back over your strokes so you can see where the shape drifted.

Press Watch to see the stroke order.

Stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi via Hanzi Writer, Arphic Public License.

Three words that use it

家人jiārénfamily
回家huíjiāto go home
大家jiāeveryone

Watch out

The mistake people make

Forgetting the dot at the top of the roof.