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在家

zàijiā
verbHSK 1

“To be at home” in Chinese is 在家 (zàijiā).

Meaning

  • to be at home
  • (at a workplace) to be in (as opposed to being away on official business 出差[chu1 chai1])
  • (Buddhism etc) to remain a layman (as opposed to becoming a monk or a nun 出家[chu1 jia1])

Example

你在家吗

Are you home?

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

zàiHSK 16 strokesto exist; to be alivejiāHSK 110 strokeshome

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