- 家 jiā, 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.
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