Word information
Simplified国家
Traditional國家
Pinyinguójiā
Part of speech名
HSK 3.03
HSK 2.03
Character breakdown
Study each Hanzi separately, then return to the complete word so pronunciation, meaning, and movement stay connected.
How to learn 国家
Listen once without reading, repeat the pinyin with its tones, then write every character in sequence. Finally, recall the complete meaning instead of memorizing each character as an isolated translation.
When the word appears in a sentence, check whether its part of speech and meaning match the definition shown here. Chinese words can change nuance with context.
Related vocabulary
Words with the same characters
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大家dàjiā
everyone; influential family; great expert
国guócountry; nation; state; (bound form) national; surname Guo
家jiāhome; family; (polite) my (sister, uncle etc); classifier for families or businesses; refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China; noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian; CL:個|个[ge4]; used in 傢伙|家伙[jia1 huo5] and 傢俱|家俱[jia1 ju4]
家人jiārénfamily member; (old) servant
中国ZhōngguóChina
出国chūguóto go abroad; to leave the country