籍贯

籍貫
jíguàn
noun #47,394

Meanings

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

Examples

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

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