在家 On the HSK 1 vocabulary list, at CEFR level A1. zàijiā ㄗㄞˋ ㄐㄧㄚ to be at home to be in (as opposed to being away on official business 出差[chu1 chai1]) at a workplace to remain a layman (as opposed to becoming a monk or a nun 出家[chu1 jia1]) Buddhism etc Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT