1 leading role

2 lead

1 theme

2 subject

1 household

2 dwelling

3 family

4 sb else's house

5 household business

6 house of woman's husband-to-be

7 classifier: 户 hù

8 classifier: 家 jiā

1 see also: 家伙 jiā huo

1 to return home

1 to live miles apart (idiom)

1 failed and wiped over the floor (idiom); to fail utterly

2 a crushing defeat

3 beaten and in a hopeless position

1 lit. to go up to heaven or down to Hades (idiom)

2 fig. to go to great lengths

3 to search heaven and earth

1 lit. there is no road to the sky, nor door into the earth (idiom)

2 fig. to be at the end of one's rope

3 to be trapped in a hopeless situation

1 people who don't belong together, don't get to live together (idiom)

2 marriages are predestined

3 people marry because they share common traits