house; family

Builds 87 distinct compound words — ranked #22 of 100 for productivity.

音 on: カ・ケ
訓 kun: いえ・や

The house and the people in it. As a suffix it names a practitioner — 作家 an author, 政治家 a politician.

The ten most common compounds built on 家. Tap any word that leads to another mapped character to follow it.

87compounds built

3,858times those words occur

#33by productivity alone

#26by how often it turns up

Where 家 leads

Other characters from the top 100 that share a word with 家. Each one opens its own map.

小small小説家#69 作make作家#75

Words built on 家

家いえ2,291 uses

家族かぞく361 uses

政治家145 uses

作家さっか122 uses

家庭かてい71 uses

家具かぐ68 uses

音楽家おんがくか61 uses

画家がか57 uses

芸術家48 uses

専門家40 uses

Counts from the Tanaka Corpus index via Tatoeba, 1,178,504 words of segmented Japanese. Tatoeba sentences are contributed by learners and teachers, so frequencies reflect textbook Japanese rather than a general corpus. Compound readings are generated — from the corpus where it records one, otherwise from a tokenizer — and are omitted rather than guessed where neither resolves the word. Character meanings and on/kun readings are written by hand.