四世同堂

sì shì tóng táng

four generations under one roof

Character by character

四sì
four

世shì
generations

同tóng
same

堂táng
hall

以前四世同堂的大家庭很常见，现在越来越少了。

Four-generation households used to be common; now they are rarer and rarer.

Tone: positive (praise).

Also the title of a famous novel by 老舍.

Learn this in Lesson 27 · HSK 5–6: 人口与老龄化 (Population and ageing)

A dialogue, a reading, word cards with audio and a drill that uses it, in Learn Chinese with Bao. This lesson is free.