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Definition(s) for: 养家糊口

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
养家糊口 yǎng jiā - hú kǒu - (idiom) to provide for one's family

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - - 38,412 29,897

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
yǎng- to raise (animals)
- to bring up (children)
- to keep (pets)
- to support
- to give birth
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- used in 傢伙|家伙[jia1huo5] and 傢俱|家俱[jia1ju4]
- muddled
- paste
- scorched
- paste
- cream
- variant of 糊[hu2]
- congee
- (in 糊口[hu2kou3]) to feed oneself
kǒu- mouth
- classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc)
- classifier for bites or mouthfuls

Other Words Containing 养家糊口

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Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo