宅 (zhái)
residence/(slang) homebody
How 宅 is written
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 宀 — roof
- Traditional
- 宅
- Simplified
- 宅 (unchanged)
Components
- 宀 roof
- ㇒ N/A
- 乚 second
- 一 one
Common words using 宅
- 住宅 zhùzhái
- residence; tenement
- 宅女 zháinǚ
- female geek; female nerd; otaku girl
- 宅男 zháinán
- male addicted to computers, computer games, adult cartoons etc (2000s Taiwan slang, derived from Japanese otaku 御宅男 house male); fan of computer games; by extension, nerd
- 豪宅 háozhái
- grand residence; mansion
- 住宅區 zhùzháiqū
- residential area; housing development
- 住宅樓 zhùzháilóu
- residential building; CL:幢[zhuang4],座[zuo4],棟|栋[dong4]
- 兇宅 xiōngzhái
- inauspicious abode; haunted house
- 古宅 gǔzhái
- former residence
- 宅子 zháizi
- house; residence
- 宅配 zháipèi
- home delivery
- 宅院 zháiyuàn
- house; house with a courtyard
- 御宅族 yùzháizú
- otaku, a Japanese term for people with obsessive interests such as anime, manga, and video games; see also 宅男[zhai2 nan2]; see also 宅女[zhai2 nu:3]
宅 in a sentence
他很宅，週末都不出門。
Tā hěn zhái, zhōumò dōu bù chūmén.
“He is a total homebody; he never goes out on weekends.”
How common is 宅?
宅 is the 1,855th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 96.6% of all running text.
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