家 jiā

家 jiā

  • 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.