家常

家常 jiācháng

The daily life of a family†

家常 in a sentence HSK 6 jiachang

What 家常 means

  1. The daily life of a family†

† Our own dictionary has no entry for 家常, so these meanings are adapted from CC-CEDICT, published by MDBG and its contributors and based on CEDICT © 1997, 1998 Paul Andrew Denisowski, and licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Recognise a piece of 家常 but not the character it belongs to? Pick the parts in the component character finder and it will name the character for you — free for every character, with nothing to sign in to.

Character by character

家常 is written with 2 characters. Chinese words are usually easier to remember once you can see what each part contributes.

家
jiā
Family (home - domestic)
常
cháng
Often (common)

How to write 家常

Stroke order is not decoration — it is what makes handwriting legible and what dictionary lookup by stroke count depends on.

Practise 家常 on printable 田字格 sheets, trace it in the writing practice tool, or watch any other character in the Stroke Order Animator.

家常 in a sentence

我们只做几个家常菜,别客气。
Wǒmen zhǐ zuò jǐ ge jiācháng cài, bié kèqi.
We've only made a few home-style dishes, so please don't stand on ceremony.
两人坐下来聊起了家常。
Liǎng rén zuò xiàlái liáo qǐ le jiācháng.
The two sat down and chatted about everyday things.

Every sentence on this site that uses 家常 is collected on the 家常 sentence page. Want pinyin above a sentence of your own? Paste it into the Pinyin Annotator.

Questions about 家常

What does 家常 mean in English?

家常 is pronounced jiācháng and means The daily life of a family †.

How do you pronounce 家常?

家常 is jiācháng in pinyin — written jiachang without tone marks. Press the audio button on this page to hear it spoken by a native voice.

What are the characters in 家常?

家常 is written with 2 characters: 家 (jiā) Family (home - domestic), 常 (cháng) Often (common). Knowing the parts is usually how the whole word becomes memorable.

Is 家常 an HSK word?

Yes — 家常 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list. You can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.

Studied around the same time

Keep going

Translate a whole sentence containing 家常 with the Chinese to Pinyin translator, study it alongside the rest of HSK 6, drill it with HSK flashcards, or save it above and review it on your review deck.

Browse the dictionary

Every word on this site links to its entry — tap any word in a graded reader, a translation result or an HSK list to land on a page like this one.

Dictionary index