生せい家か

also: しょうか

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Common wordFreq.FrequencyTop 50,000

Meanings

house where one was born; birthplace home

Refers specifically to the physical house or dwelling where a person was born.

one's parents' house; family home

Refers to the home of one's parents, often implying the house where one grew up, not necessarily the birthplace.

〈人ひと〉の生せい家かを訪おとずれるto visit the house where someone was born
夏なつ目め漱そう石せきの生せい家かを訪おとずれた。
I visited the house where Natsume Soseki was born.
生せい家かが〈場ば所しょ〉にあるone's birthplace house is located in a place
彼かれの生せい家かは京きょう都とにある。
His birthplace house is in Kyoto.
生せい家かを保ほ存ぞんするto preserve someone's birthplace house (as a historical site)
作さっ家かの生せい家かが保ほ存ぞんされている。
The writer's birthplace house has been preserved.
生せい家かに帰かえるto return to one's family home
正しょう月がつには生せい家かに帰かえるつもりだ。
I plan to go back to my family home for New Year's.

実じっ家かN3sense 2
実家 is the everyday word for one's parents' home, while 生家 is a more literary term emphasizing the actual house where a person was born.
故こ郷きょうN3sense 1
故郷 refers broadly to one's hometown or native region, whereas 生家 specifically means the actual house one was born in.
古ふる巣す sense 2
古巣 is a casual, figurative term for one's former home or old stomping ground, while 生家 formally denotes the family house itself.

生家Usage100%
- せいか
  Standard kanji spelling; the reading せいか is the most common.
- しょうか
  Rare reading; せいか is overwhelmingly preferred in modern Japanese.
しょうか

Compound of 生 (sei, 'birth') and 家 (ka, 'house'). The reading しょうか is an older Sino-Japanese reading, now rare.