your home; your family; their home; their family
Honorific term for someone else's home or family. Used to show respect toward the listener or a third party. Often used in polite conversation.
See also: お宅
The child wants to go home.
お家はどちらですか。
Where is your home?
Please give my regards to your family.
Childish or very informal way to refer to one's own home. Used mainly by children or in family settings. Not honorific in this sense.
Let's play at my home today.
May I visit your home sometime, Tanaka-san?
On rainy days, we often play at home.
お宅 is a more formal honorific term used with strangers or in business, while お家 is softer and more common in everyday polite speech.
家 is the plain, neutral word for 'house/home', while お家 is its honorific form used to show respect toward someone else's home or family.
Standard kanji spelling; the honorific prefix お is written in kana.
Rare kanji form; it is rarely used.
Honorific prefix お + 家 (house/home). The reading うち for 家 is a native Japanese word. The form おうち is a polite or affectionate variant.