| 宅 | [ zhaí ] residence, (coll.) to stay in at home, to hang around at home |
| 宅女 | [ zhaí nǚ ] female geek, female nerd, otaku girl |
| 宅子 | [ zhaí zi ] house, residence |
| 宅度假 | [ zhaí dù jià ] staycation, residential vacation |
| 宅男 | [ zhaí nán ] a guy who stays at home all the time, typically spending a lot of time playing online games (derived from Japanese "otaku") |
| 宅第 | [ zhaí dì ] residence, mansion |
| 宅經 | [ zhaí jīng ] The Yellow Emperor's Classic on the Feng Shui of Dwellings |
| 宅舍 | [ zhaí shè ] house, residence |
| 宅配 | [ zhaí peì ] delivery service, primarily C2C and B2C (Tw) |
| 宅院 | [ zhaí yuàn ] house, house with a courtyard |
| ⇒ 住宅 | [ zhù zhaí ] residence, tenement |
| ⇒ 住宅區 | [ zhù zhaí qū ] residential area, housing development |
| ⇒ 住宅樓 | [ zhù zhaí loú ] residential building, CL:幢[zhuang4],座[zuo4],棟|栋[dong4] |
| ⇒ 住宅泡沫 | [ zhù zhaí paò mò ] housing bubble |
| ⇒ 侵入家宅者 | [ qīn rù jiā zhaí zhě ] housebreaker, burglar |
| ⇒ 兇宅 | [ xiōng zhaí ] inauspicious abode, haunted house |
| ⇒ 卜宅 | [ bǔ zhaí ] to choose a capital by divination, to choose a home, to choose one's burial place by divination |
| ⇒ 古宅 | [ gǔ zhaí ] former residence |
| ⇒ 家宅 | [ jiā zhaí ] home, residence, house |
| ⇒ 居宅 | [ jū zhaí ] dwelling |
| ⇒ 御宅族 | [ yù zhaí zú ] otaku, a Japanese term for people with obsessive interests such as anime, manga, and video games, see also 宅男[zhai2 nan2], see also 宅女[zhai2 nu:3] |
| ⇒ 故宅 | [ gù zhaí ] former home |
| ⇒ 死宅 | [ sǐ zhaí ] die-hard otaku (sb who hardly ever emerges from their home, where they play games, watch movies etc) |
| ⇒ 民宅 | [ mín zhaí ] house, people's homes |
| ⇒ 浮家泛宅 | [ fú jiā fàn zhaí ] lit. to live on a boat, to drift from place to place (idiom) |
| ⇒ 舊宅 | [ jiù zhaí ] former residence |
| ⇒ 豪宅 | [ haó zhaí ] grand residence, mansion |
| ⇒ 陰宅 | [ yīn zhaí ] tomb (feng shui term) |