家人
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In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
The people in one's family; one's relatives at home. 我的家人 is 'my family' in the sense of its members, while 家 alone can mean the family or the house. A common pairing: 家人和朋友 'family and friends'.
Người trong gia đình, người nhà. 我的家人 là “gia đình tôi”, “người nhà tôi”, tức là những con người trong đó; 家 đứng một mình còn có nghĩa là “nhà”. Cụm hay gặp: 家人和朋友 (gia đình và bạn bè).
NounRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “家人” mean?
The people in one's family; one's relatives at home. 我的家人 is 'my family' in the sense of its members, while 家 alone can mean the family or the house. A common pairing: 家人和朋友 'family and friends'. Literally: home people
Is “家人” formal or informal?
家人 is generally neutral.