house, home, family, professional, expert, performer
家 centers on the idea of a dwelling and the people within it: a house, a home, or a family. The extended senses of professional, expert, or performer come from the idea of a family or school of specialized practice.
家 combines 宀 (roof) and 豕 (pig), reflecting an ancient view of a household as a place where pigs were kept under the roof, symbolizing settled domestic life.
Under a roof 宀, a pig 豕 is kept. In ancient times, raising pigs at home meant a settled family life, so 家 means house, home, or family.
For カ, imagine a car parked in front of the house: car -> カ, and the family's home is where the car is.
one's house; one's home; one's family; one's household
house; family
house; residence; dwelling; home
family
state; country; nation
home; household; family; hearth
author; writer; novelist; artist
(one's parents') home
household (electrical) appliances; home appliances; consumer electronics
one's house; one's home; one's family
farmer; farming family
a family; a household; a home; one's family; whole family
housework; domestic chores
furniture
rent
head house; main family
your home; your family; their home; their family
domestic animals; livestock; cattle
painter; artist
running away from home; elopement
family lineage
household economy; family finances
house; building
master; expert; authority; leading figure
landlord; landlady
private house
household economy; housekeeping; homemaking
one's own house
musician
vacant house; unoccupied house
(my) wife
domicile; premises
family business; family trade
social standing of a family; lineage; parentage; pedigree
retainer; vassal; follower
landlord; landlady
for private or home use
occupant of a house; family member; household member (incl. servants)
rented house; house for rent
neighbouring house; neighboring house
one's (own) house
house where one was born
head of a school (of music, dance); head family of a school
family court
household belongings; household goods
head of family; head house
calligrapher; individual with good penmanship
house for rent
historian
industrialist; entrepreneur
composer
photographer
(national) government official; national public servant; national government employee
state examination; national examination
large family
businessperson; businessman; businesswoman; entrepreneur; captain of industry
house building; building a house
within the family; in the home; domestic
(home) tutor; private tutor; private teacher
home economics
housekeeper; maid
family planning
household account book
specialist; expert; professional; authority; pundit
novelist; fiction writer
architect
politician; statesman
nuclear family
optimist; easy-going person
activist
director (of a film, play, etc.)
cartoonist; comic book artist; manga artist; manga author; mangaka
researcher; student (of)
charitable person; philanthropist; volunteer; supporter
artist
rakugo story teller; comic story teller
critic; reviewer; commentator
capitalist; financier