Example sentences
wǒ我huí回jiā家le了。
I'm home.
huān欢yíng迎lái来wǒ我jiā家。
Welcome to my home.
The story behind the character
家
家 literally means a pig under a roof. 宀 is the roof, 豕 is the pig. Not a pet, but your livelihood. In the earliest writing they drew it straight: a roof, a pig underneath. For ancient people, if you could keep a pig under your roof, you were settled. Every time you write this character, you're drawing a house with a pig in it.