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The essential meaning of "home"

Home, a common word in modern Chinese, pronounced jiā, was first seen in Oracle Bone Inscriptions. Its original meaning is house and residence, and it is extended to settlement and settlement. Home can also be extended to the house of a family, the interior and residence of government agencies and troops.

Related words are:

Jiā: home, family, home, family, home, painter, hometown, experts, everyone, hometown.

Jia: mother's family, husband's family, expert, enemy, master, public family, husband's family.

Extended data:

First, etymological analysis

Home, knowledge and pictophonetic characters. In Oracle Bone Inscriptions of Shang Dynasty, there were two ways to write "home". One is that the tapir in "dog" (a hieroglyph of a house) is male (with prominent male genitalia in the abdomen), and the other is a simpler way of writing, which does not emphasize gender, and the tapir that highlights male genitalia should be a hieroglyph of "dog". The tapir with weak tonality is very economical.

In Zhou Jin's works, the word "home" is mainly written in a tone-free way, which evolved from this way for later generations. In Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty, the "tapir" in "home" mostly drew the outline of pigs, and some only drew the lines of pigs. The word "home" in Zhou Jin's writings evolved from this simple word.

In Oracle Bone Inscriptions, the writing style of omitting strokes, such as tapir's front hoof, appeared, but the bronze inscriptions in the Zhou Dynasty evolved from the complete writing style of Oracle Bone Inscriptions. In addition, in Zhou Jin's writing, the strokes of pig's hind hoof and pig's tail are linked together, and the official script of the Western Han Dynasty is divided into two strokes, while that of the Eastern Han Dynasty is divided into three strokes, which makes writing more convenient.

Second, word analysis.

1,Home [jiā yuán]?

Refers to the garden at home. Generally refers to the family or hometown.

2. Family

That is, relatives, especially those who are related by blood, that is, immediate relatives, such as brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, aunts, etc.

3. Girl?

Generally refers to the home of a married woman's own parents, but also has other meanings.

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