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 gù xiāng home / homeland / native place / CL:個|个[ge4]
 jiā home / family / (polite) my (sister, uncle etc) / classifier for families or businesses / refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China / noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian / CL:個|个[ge4]
 jiā lǐ home
 jiā yuán home / homeland
 jiā jū home / residence / to stay at home (unemployed)
 jū jiā to live at home / to stay at home / home (schooling etc) / in-home (care etc) / household (repairs etc) / living (environment etc)
宿 guī sù place to return to / home / final destination / ending
 jū chù dwelling place / home
 jiā zhái home / residence / house
 jiā xìn letter (to or from) home
 shǒu yè home page (of a website) / title page / front page / first page / fig. beginning / cover letter
 zhǔ yè home page
 huí jiā to return home
 guó nèi wài domestic and international / at home and abroad
 chū mén to go out / to leave home / to go on a journey / away from home / (of a woman) to get married
 zài jiā to be at home / (at a workplace) to be in (as opposed to being away on official business 出差[chu1 chai1]) / (Buddhism etc) to remain a layman (as opposed to becoming a monk or a nun 出家[chu1 jia1])
 zhǔ chǎng home ground (sports) / home field / main venue / main stadium
 zhōng wài Sino-foreign / Chinese-foreign / home and abroad
 huí guó to return to one's home country
 lǎo jiā native place / place of origin / home state or region
 luò hù to settle / to set up home
 fáng dài home loan
 hǎi nèi wài domestic and international / at home and abroad
 chū zǒu to leave home / to go off / to run away
 wài bian outside / outer surface / abroad / place other than one's home
 chū jiā to leave home (to become a Buddhist monk or nun)
 yì xiāng foreign land / a place far from home
 jiā tíng shēng huó home life
 yóu zǐ person living or traveling far from home
 tàn qīn to go home to visit one's family
 lí jiā chū zǒu to leave home (to live somewhere else)
 xiāng qīn fellow countryman (from the same village) / local people / villager / the folks back home
 yuǎn xíng a long journey / far from home
 chuǎng dàng to leave home to make one's way in the world / to leave the life one knows to seek success
 xīn jū new residence / new home
 niáng jia married woman's parents' home
 yíng qǔ (of a groom) to fetch one's bride from her parents' home to escort her to the wedding ceremony / (fig.) to take as one's wife / to marry (a woman)
 guī guó to go home (to one's native country) / to return from abroad
 xiāng lǐ one's home town or village
 dēng mén to visit sb at home
 fǎn xiāng to return to one's home town
 ān jiā to settle down / to set up a home
 làng jì to roam about / to wander without a home
 wài mài (of a restaurant) to provide a takeout or home delivery meal / takeout (business) / takeout (meal)
 fǔ shàng (polite) your home / residence
 jiā cháng cài home cooking
 zán jiā I / me / we / my home / our house
 piān fāng folk remedy / home remedy
 liú lián wàng fǎn to linger / to remain enjoying oneself and forget to go home
 jìng nèi wài within and without the borders / domestic and foreign / home and abroad
 jìng lǎo yuàn home of respect for aged / nursing home
 dān fāng unilateral / one-sided / home remedy / folk prescription(same as 丹方) / single-drug prescription (same as 奇方[ji1 fang1], one of the seven kinds of prescriptions of Chinese medicine 七方[qi1 fang1]) / metaphorically. a good solution
 guī tú the way back / one's journey home
 yuán jí ancestral home (town) / birthplace
 jiā yǎng domestic (animals) / home reared
 yóu xué to study away from home or abroad (old)
 chuàn mén to call on sb / to drop in / to visit sb's home
 fǎn jiā to return home
 suí yù ér ān at home wherever one is (idiom) / ready to adapt / flexible / to accept circumstances with good will
 jiā yòng diàn nǎo home computer
 píng dàn wú qí ordinary and mediocre (idiom) / nothing to write home about
 róng shēn to find a place where one can fit in / to make one's home / to seek shelter
 jì jū to live away from home
 liú lí homeless and miserable / forced to leave home and wander from place to place / to live as a refugee
 hù nèi indoors / within the home
 jiā tú sì bì lit. with only four bare walls for a home (idiom) / fig. very poor / wretched
 ān shēn to make one's home / to take shelter
 huán xiāng to return home / fig. to retire from public life
 sú jiā layman / layperson / original home of a monk
 xià jiā player whose turn comes next (in a game) / next one / my humble home
 liú lí shī suǒ destitute and homeless (idiom) / forced from one's home and wandering about / displaced
 lu:3 jū to stay away from home / residence abroad / sojourn
 lín mén to arrive home / facing one's home / home-coming / (soccer) facing the goalmouth
 yǎng lǎo yuàn nursing home
 jiù jū old residence / former home
 sòng cān home delivery of meal
 Yī lái kè sī Electrolux (Swedish manufacturer of home appliances)
便 qǐng biàn Please do as you wish! / You are welcome to do whatever you like! / Please make yourself at home.
 hán shè my humble home
 chū zhěn to visit a patient at home (of a doctor) / house call
 běn xiāng home village / one's native place
 qiè zhòng to hit the target (esp. in argument) / to strike home
 fá shàn kě chén to be nothing to write home about (idiom)
 fēng pèi copious / plentiful (of water) / surging (of waves) / refers to home village of first Han emperor 漢高祖|汉高祖[Han4 Gao1 zu3] / fig. majestic
 liàn jiā home-loving / to feel a strong attachment to home life / to begrudge being away from home
 quán lěi dǎ home run (baseball)
 chī bu liǎo dōu zhe zǒu lit. if you can't eat it all, you'll have to take it home (idiom) / fig. you'll have to take the consequences
 fù xián to stay idle at home / to have resigned from office / to be unemployed / to have been fired / to be on a sabbatical
 shè xià my humble home
 xián jū to lead a quiet and peaceful life in retirement / to stay home with nothing to do / to lead a solitary life
 guī gēn to return home (after a lifetime's absence) / to go back to one's roots
 bēn sāng to hasten home for the funeral of a parent or grandparent
 kōng cháo empty nest / a home where the kids have grown up and moved out
便 biàn fàn an ordinary meal / simple home cooking
 bīn zhì rú guī guests feel at home (in a hotel, guest house etc) / a home away from home
 ān jiā luò hù to make one's home in a place / to settle
 yuè jiā wife's parents' home
 Yíng zhōu Yingzhou, easternmost of three fabled islands in Eastern sea, home of immortals and source of elixir of immortality
 guī xīn sì jiàn with one's heart set on speeding home (idiom)
 wéi Wèi jiù Zhào lit. to besiege 魏[Wei4] and rescue 趙|赵[Zhao4] (idiom) / fig. to relieve a besieged ally by attacking the home base of the besiegers
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