Zi:家
家 [jiā] home, house; family; 国家 nation; 大家 everybody [jia] 人家 sb. else; (HDZ:) … [jie] 別家 [jià] 稼; 嫁 [gū] 姑, “大家” 妇女的尊称; 婆母
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The character 家 jiā ‘home/family’ seems to have 宀 (mián) ‘roof/house/home’ (as in 安宁 ‘peaceful/tranquil’), over 豕 (shǐ) ‘pig/pork’ (猪肉): tasty pork dishes feed the hungry household (cf. 寧/宁); alternatively, 豕 here is short for 乑/众(㐺𥅫眾衆) zhòng ‘three/many people’ (father, mother, child); but the old explanations of 家 are more complex and less clear.
The Shuōwén Seal form of 家 jiā ‘home/dwelling/residence’ is said to combine 宀 (mián) ‘roof/house/home’, with 豭 jiā ‘male pig/boar’ (abbrev. phonetic); formerly also wr. 𠖔, with an abbrev. of 豙(𧱏) yì ‘enraged boar’ instead of 豕(𧰧).
Note: DYC describes the question of 豕 in 家 as 一大疑案 a big unsettled mystery, since most scholars seeing 豕 as a component in so many characters see it again in 家 and simply stop there; he sees the SW analysis with 豭 as circuitous, and offers as an alternative that 家 formerly referred to a shed in which pigs were kept (cf. 家财: 家庭的财产 ‘family/domestic/private property/estate’), later generalized to dwellings in general, citing 牢(𡘠) láo ‘cage/pen’ as an example of such semantic change (𨻼牢 ‘jail’).
Note: The HDZ entry for 家 cites old inscriptional forms in support of the SW analysis with 豭 jiā (牡豕 ‘male pig’) as abbrev. phonetic, seeing the old 豕 shape as short for 家 in some inscriptions; indeed, various old ‘pig’ words might have been wr. 豕; cf. 𢑓 xiá ‘pig’, (SW:) 讀若 “瑕”.
“[家] The 宀 house where you have 豕 domestic animals” —Karlgren(AD).
Compare: 稼 jià ‘ears of grain; farming/husbandry’, formerly also wr. 家 (‘homestead/farmhouse’).
Compare: 嫁 jià ‘marry (of women: leave the natal/parental home, go in marriage)’.
Compare: 逐 zhú ‘expel’, in which 豖 chù ‘tethered pig’ (abbrev. phonetic).
Compare: 遯(𨘹) dùn ‘flee’ (䷠); ䷤ 家人 (☴☲, ䷠䷼), in which ䷿ (nuclear trigram).
HDZ: 家 : jiā : (甲金) 豕 (豭: 牡豕) 在宀下之形, 后豕省去牡器变为豕, (颂鼎) 家字, 一作家, 一作豕可证; 住所; 家庭; (古) 夫或妻 (夫妻); 娶妻成家 (cf. 嫁); 定居, 安家; 家财, 私产; 养家, 治家; (量词) (单位) (一家工厂, 三家酒店); (谦词) 自己的亲属…; 同姓的人; 驯化培育的或家生的 (ant. 野) (家畜, 家兔, 家鼠); 内部的 (ant. 外); 朝廷; 都城; 帝王, 太子; (古) 卿大夫及其家族或封地; 民族 (苗家, 傣家); 某一集团或某一方面; 学术流派 (儒家, 法家, 墨家, 兵家); 某人; 具有某种专长、特征, 或从事某种专门活东的人 (音乐家, 科学家, 野心家, 政治家, 社会活动家); 经营某种行业的人家或具有某种身分的人 (渔家, 店家, 厂家, 东家); (古) (医书) 患某种病的人; 伏几, 竹夫人; (助词) 样, 似的; 傢 (家什, 家具, 家生); (姓) • jià : 稼: 种植谷物; 嫁: 移动 • jia : (助词) (后缀) • jie : (助词) 地, 的 • gū : (尊称) “大家”, 妇女的尊称 (姑); 婆母
►references: Guǎngyùn:166.33; Henshall:83; Karlgren:AD347,GSR32a; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:2.930.15; Lindqvist:272; Mathews:594; Kāngxī Zìdiǎn:286.17; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:172.1.04; Wáng(1993):82; EDOC:1
►components: 宀豕
►Cantonese: ga\
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