千家万户 (qiān jiā wàn hù): every family (idiom)

Meaning & Stroke Order

Idiom info

Pinyin
Meaning: every family (idiom)
Characters: 4

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every family (idiom)

Chinese explanation

形容许多家庭，指所有的家庭或每家每户。常用来强调范围广，涉及社会上众多的家庭。例如，新年时千家万户都贴春联。

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Character breakdown

HSK 1

thousand

HSK 1

home

HSK 2

ten thousand

HSK 6

a household

Example sentences

On the eve of the Spring Festival, every household is busy cleaning the house and putting up red couplets, hoping the new year will bring good luck.

On Mid-Autumn night, every family sits together eating mooncakes and admiring the moon, enjoying the wonderful time of reunion.

In remote mountain areas, many children used to be unable to attend school because of poverty; now, children from every household can sit in bright classrooms and study.

As soon as the new model of mobile phone was launched, households everywhere rushed to buy it, and soon this product became a hot topic on every street corner.

With the popularization of the Internet, every household can learn news from around the world through the web, making life more convenient.

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