Usage patterns 〈 人ひと 〉 が 世せ 帯たい を 持も つ to set up one's own household (e.g. by marrying)
He has already moved out and set up his own household.
世せ 帯たい 主ぬし になる to become the head of a household
After our father died, my older brother became the head of the household.
世せ 帯たい 数すう が 増ふ える / 減へ る for the number of households to increase/decrease
The number of single-person households is increasing every year.
Kanji 世 generation, world, society Related words 家族 refers to a group of related people, while 世帯 is the formal term for a household as a residential and economic unit that may include non-relatives.
家庭 emphasizes the home and family life as a warm, personal environment, whereas 世帯 is a bureaucratic term used in census, tax, and utility contexts.
世帯 is the administrative/statistical term for a household, while 一家 is the more natural, everyday word for a family unit.
世帯 is an administrative/statistical term for a household as a single unit, while 家人 refers to the individual people who make up that household.
Word family· 14 head of household; householder
family members; members of a household
number of households
multiple households
large household; big family
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household income; family income
single-person household
standard family unit; model household
two-family house; multi-generational home
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Etymology Compound of 世 (world, generation) and 帯 (belt, band), originally referring to a group of people living together under one roof. The exact historical derivation is uncertain.
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