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家庭 (かてい, katei) Japanese meaning: home | Kotomora
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He values his family/home life.
I quit the company due to family circumstances.
I want to build a warm home.
Usage patterns 〈 形けい 容よう 詞し 〉 家か 庭てい a home/family life that is (adjective)
He grew up in a cheerful household.
家か 庭てい の 事じ 情じょう で 〈 動どう 詞し 〉 to do something due to family circumstances
He quit his job because of family circumstances.
家か 庭てい が 崩ほう 壊かい する for a family/household to fall apart
The family fell apart because of the parents' divorce.
Expressions 家か 庭てい に 入はい る join a household as a homemaker; become a housewife/househusband 家か 庭てい を 顧かえり みない neglectful of one's family; thinking little of one's family Related words· 7 家族 refers to the people who make up a family, while 家庭 emphasizes the home environment and domestic life they share.
家 is the more concrete word for the physical house or household name, while 家庭 stresses the family life and atmosphere within it.
家庭 is the noun for 'family/home' as a unit, while 家庭内 is the attributive form meaning 'within the home' and modifies another noun.
家庭 emphasizes the household and family life inside a home, whereas ホーム is a looser, more abstract katakana term for one's place of belonging.
Show 3 more 家庭 refers abstractly to home life or the family unit in general, whereas 我が家 specifically points to one's own particular home or family.
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.
家庭 refers to the home or domestic life itself, whereas 一家 refers to the family group that lives there.
Don't confuse with 家庭 (home/family) and 仮定 (a hypothesis or assumption) are pronounced identically as かてい but have completely unrelated meanings.
課程 means an academic course while 家庭 means a home or family, and only the identical かてい reading links them.
Word family· 33 kitchen garden; home vegetable garden
family-oriented man; family man
within the family; in the home; domestic
Written forms 家か 庭てい Usage 100%
Standard kanji spelling; high-frequency word.
カテイ Usage <1%
Etymology Compound of 家 (house, home) and 庭 (garden, yard), originally referring to the house and its grounds, later extended to mean the household and domestic life.
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劇げき
soap opera; domestic drama
Show 5 more family column (newspaper)
home edition; consumer version · console version
household use; home use; domestic use
family-oriented; homely; domestic
housedress; house clothes
