Character Contained In References Comments
 Simplified  Traditional  Ancient forms  Archaic forms
   traditional formhandwritten form

Variants

Phonetic

Semantic

Apparent
Mandarin
jia1, gu1, jie5
English
Definitions
home; family; -er; -ian; -ist; a person engaged in a certain art or profession; tool; a person engaged in a certain art or professionfurniture; company; furniture; house; residence
Mnemonic
Relating to a building
Etymology
Notes
Phonetic is abbreviated: Shuowen suggests this combination; it doesn’t seem to likely from ancient forms of this character which clearly show a pig under a roof