Chinese symbol for “homesick”
想家
xiǎng jiā
homesick
The closest CC-CEDICT match for homesick is 想家 (xiǎng jiā), defined as: homesick.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “homesick”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 想家.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 想要 | xiǎng yào | to want to; to feel like |
| 思想 | sī xiǎng | thought; thinking |
| 不想 | bù xiǎng | unexpectedly; to one's surprise |
| 想到 | xiǎng dào | to think of; to call to mind |
| 想法 | xiǎng fǎ | way of thinking; opinion; notion; to think of a way (to do sth) |
| 梦想 (夢想) | mèng xiǎng | (fig.) to dream of; dream |
| 国家 (國家) | guó jiā | country; nation; state |
| 大家 | dà jiā | everyone; influential family |
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.