籍贯

籍貫
jíguàn
noun HSK 7-9 #47,394

Meanings

  1. 1 ancestral home
  2. 2 native place (recorded on official documents)

Examples

HSK 4
Qǐng tiánxiě nín de xìngmíng hé jíguàn.
Please fill in your name and place of origin.
HSK 4
Suīrán zài Táiběi zhǎngdà, tā jíguàn háishì Shāndōng.
Although he grew up in Taipei, his registered ancestral home is Shandong.
HSK 5
Tā de jíguàn shì Fújiàn.
His ancestral home is in Fujian.

Tips

culture
籍贯 is typically inherited through the father regardless of where one was born or lives. It's a standard field on Chinese-world official forms and shows the family's recorded place of origin.

Stroke Order

guàn