Abstract:
The word “家” in Suide dialect has abundant usages. Different from its counterpart in Beijing speech, “家” in Suide dialect can be used to refer to classification, time, means, state, mode and even label of topic. Historically, most usages of “家” in modern Chinese dialect already occurred in ancient documents. Some of those usages in Suide dialect go back to ancient times, and some to the Song and Yuan Dynasties. Moreover, “家” had different graphic forms in ancient documents, mainly including “价”，“贾”，“介”，“假”，“口叚”，“加”. Some of these different graphic forms, such as “价” and “介”， appeared owing to the radical differences from the original meanings, some, such as “贾”,“假”，“口叚” and “加” as homophones and others because of regional elements.
