The Chinese word **家教 (jiājiào)** is a compound term formed by combining two characters: **家 (jiā)**, meaning "family" or "home," and **教 (jiào)**, meaning "to teach" or "education." Morphologically, it follows a common modifier-head structure in Chinese, where "家" modifies the type of "教," literally translating to "family teaching" or "home education." Historically and semantically, this reflects the traditional concept of moral and behavioral instruction imparted within the family unit. Over time, its meaning has expanded in modern usage to commonly refer to **private tutoring** (a teacher coming to the home) as well as the broader sense of a person's **upbringing** or the manners they learned at home.