家小

jiāxiǎo
noun #35,770

Meanings

  1. 1 one's wife and children
  2. 2 family dependents
  3. 3 (sometimes) one's wife alone

Examples

Tā zài wài dǎgōng, bǎ jiāxiǎo liú zài le lǎojiā.
He works far from home and left his wife and kids in the village.
Wèile yǎnghuó jiāxiǎo, tā měi tiān jiābān dào shēnyè.
To support his family, he works overtime every night.

Tips

register
Slightly old-fashioned and rustic. Modern speech prefers 老婆孩子 (lǎopó háizi) or 家人 (jiārén). 家小 keeps a faint sense of duty/responsibility — the people a man must feed.

Stroke Order

jiā
xiǎo