世家

shìjiā
  1. family influential for generations
  2. aristocratic family

CEDICT

  1. aristocratic family; noble family
  2. family well-known for a specialty for generations
  3. hereditary house (term commonly used in Chinese-language historiography)

Wiktionary

  1. 世代做官的人家。亦泛指世代顯貴的家族。
  2. 史傳中記載諸侯王事跡的一種體例。如《史記》有〈吳太伯世家〉。

重編國語辭典

  1. 《史記》中傳記體例，主要記載王侯世家。
  2. 世交。
  3. 世代爲官的人家。後泛指世代顯貴的家族或大家。
  4. 以某種專長世代相傳的家族。
  5. 家世。

維基詞典

Entry Composition

1 世 shì
  1. life
  2. age
  3. generation
  4. era
  5. world
  6. lifetime
  7. epoch
  8. descendant
  9. noble
=2 家 jiā used in 傢伙 jiāhuo and 傢俱 jiājù
=2 家 jiā
  1. home
  2. family
  3. (polite) my (sister, uncle etc)
  4. classifier for families or businesses
  5. refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China
  6. noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian

classifier: 個