家小

jiāxiǎo

noun #35,770

Meanings

他在外打工，把家小留在了老家。

Tā zài wài dǎgōng, bǎ jiāxiǎo liú zài le lǎojiā.

He works far from home and left his wife and kids in the village.

为了养活家小，他每天加班到深夜。

Wèile yǎnghuó jiāxiǎo, tā měitiān jiābān dào shēnyè.

To support his family, he works overtime every night.

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

家 jiā

小 xiǎo