Word information
Simplified籍贯
Traditional籍貫
Pinyinjíguàn
Part of speech名
HSK 3.07-9
HSK 2.06
Chinese word dictionary
籍贯
jíguàn · one's ancestral home (registered place of family origin, typically inherited patrilineally and recorded in official documents)
Character breakdown
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