Definition
身家 has two main noun senses: (1) a person's family background, ancestry, or pedigree — used in phrases like 身家清白 ('come from a respectable family'); (2) a person's personal wealth or net worth — used in phrases like 身家过亿 ('worth over a hundred million'). In modern usage the wealth sense is very common in business and celebrity contexts, while the family-background sense appears more in formal or literary writing.
n.
family backgroundancestrypedigreepersonal wealthnet worth
Examples
- 身家，。Tā de shēn jiā hěn pǔtōng, dàn tā kào zìjǐ de nǔlì qǔdé le chénggōng.His family background is ordinary, but he achieved success through his own efforts.
- ，身家。Jīngguò èrshí nián de dǎpīn, tā jīlěi le fēnghòu de shēn jiā.After twenty years of hard work, he has accumulated considerable wealth.
- 身家，。Zhè wèi qǐyèjiā shēn jiā guò yì, dàn shēnghuó fēicháng dīdiào.This entrepreneur is worth over a hundred million, but lives very modestly.
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