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。亦泛指世代显贵的家族。
  2. 史传中记载诸侯王事迹的一种体例。如《史记》有〈吴太伯世家〉。

重編國語辭典

  1. 《史记》中传记体例，主要记载王侯世家。
  2. 世交。
  3. 世代爲官的人家。后泛指世代显贵的家族或大家。
  4. 以某种专长世代相传的家族。
  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 家伙 jiāhuo and 家俱 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