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Kanji Detail for 宅 - "home, house, residence"

  • Meaning

    宅 means "home, house, residence."

    1. Home - A residence; a dwelling.

    2. House - A place to live; a domicile.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    home; house; residence; our house; my husband

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    residence, dwelling, home; grave

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    residence; (coll.) to stay in at home; to hang around at home

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    residence, dwelling, home; grave

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    A dwelling. One's residence is called 宅. Hence, dwelling in a place is also 宅. (Documents) "Made them settle in many places." | Ancients' graves were also called 宅. Such as 宅兆. Now, residences are called 陽宅 (yang dwelling), burial places 陰宅 (yin dwelling).
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Sentences including

  • My father got home late last night.

  • Hardly had we come home when it began to rain.

  • Let me take you home.

  • I got leave to go home.

  • She takes a taxi from the station to her house.

  • The teacher allowed him to go home.

  • He came home at ten.

  • I would like to go home now.

  • He had just come home when i called.

  • My father came home just now.

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