Characters · 10 strokes
家
jiā home, family
Where the shape comes from
A pig, 豕, under a roof, 宀. In early farming households the pig lived at home too.
宀roof
豕pig
Write it
Watch the order first, then trace it with the guide, then write it from memory. The model comes back over your strokes so you can see where the shape drifted.
Press Watch to see the stroke order.
Stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi via Hanzi Writer, Arphic Public License.
Three words that use it
家人
jiārén
family
回家
huíjiā
to go home
大家
dàjiā
everyone
Watch out: the mistake people make
Forgetting the dot at the top of the roof.