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[416/808] Four Versions of 家 “house”

Origin: Phonosemantic compound. 宀 represents the meaning and a remnant of 豭 represents the sound.

Definition:
① house, home, residence
② family

Middle Chinese Reading:
/*ka/
Initial - dorsal (牙)
Final - none

Modern Readings:
Mandarin - jiā, jia, jie
Japanese - カ ka, ケ ke, いえ ie, や ya
Korean - 집 가 jip ga, 여자 고 yeoja go
Cantonese - gaa1, gu1, ze1
Vietnamese - gia, nhà

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References:
Booklet of the 808 Commonly Used Chinese Characters in China, Japan and the ROK - www.tcs-asia.org/en/data/publications_down.php?idx…
[CN] Trilateral Common Vocabulary Dictionary (3rd Edition) - www.tcs-asia.org/en/data/publications_down.php?idx…
Unihan Database on 家 - www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint…
[CN] Multi-function Chinese Character Database on 家 - humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/search.php?…
Chinese Character Wiki on 家 - dong-chinese.com/wiki/%E5%AE%B6
Official Readings of Jōyō Kanji - nihongo.monash.edu/jouyoureadings.html
[KR] Naver Hanja Dictionary on 家 - hanja.dict.naver.com/#/entry/ccko/80617961bdc7429f…
Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation’s Nôm Lookup Tool - nomfoundation.org/common/nom_details.php?codepoint…
CJKV Dict on 家 - cjkvdict.com/?search=%E5%AE%B6
Outlier Dictionary of Chinese Characters on 家,
黃德寬，2007《古文字譜系疏證》，北京：商務印書館。 (p. 1359)
[CN] ZDIC on Middle Chinese pronunciation of 家 (post used 王力's [Wang Li's] reconstruction) - www.zdic.net/zd/yy/zgy/%E5%AE%B6

Image Sources:
Character versions from ZDIC - www.zdic.net/hans/%E5%AE%B6
Evolution chart from 李學勤，2012《字源》，天津：天津古籍出版社，2013年7月2次印刷。 (p. 654)

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