- 国家 guójiā, country, nation
- 国, country, nation
- meaning radical: 囗(wéi)(encircle, surround; not mouth口)
- 家, home, family
- radical: ⼧(radical of roof or residence)
- 家 is an associative compounds character with ⼧ at the top meaning the roof or residence and 豕 meaning pig. Back to ancient times, when there was a pig in one’s residence, it meant that people had settled down and that the place became their home.
