お宅|おたくotaku[0]heiban (flat)

1. nounyour house; your home; your family
   お宅たくの暖房だんぼうはどのようにしていますか。↗

   How do you heat the house?
2. nounyour husband
3. nounyour organization
4. pronounyoureferring to someone of equal status with whom one is not especially close

• Synonym家宅かたくWrittenWritten term for a residence, as in 「家宅捜索」. It can refer to the other party's home but without honorific force, so it cannot replace 「お宅」 as a polite address.
• Synonym家屋かおくWrittenWritten word for a house as a building, as in 「家屋の倒壊」; common in news reports and building descriptions. It lacks the honorific sense of 「お宅」.
• SynonymおうちCasualColloquial, affectionate word for home, as in 「おうちに帰ろう」, often said to children; like 「お宅」, it can also refer politely to someone else's home.
• Related自宅じたくNeutralOne's own home, as in 「自宅で仕事をする」. It is the mirror image of 「お宅」, which politely refers to the other person's home.
• Related邸宅ていたくWrittenWritten word for a grand, imposing residence, as in 「豪華な邸宅」. It stresses the scale of the house and carries no honorific nuance.
• Related住まいすまいNeutralA place of residence, as in 「お住まいはどちら」. With the honorific 「お」 it can politely ask where someone lives.
• Related住宅じゅうたくNeutralA building for people to live in, as in 「住宅地」. It focuses on the house itself and is fairly objective.
• Related住居じゅうきょNeutralThe same word as 「住まい」, also written 「住居」. It can also mean the act of living or one's life, as in 「仮住まい」, and carries no honorific sense.
• Related家いえCasualColloquial suffix for shops or people in a trade, as in 「八百屋」 and 「本屋」. It is only distantly related to the home sense of 「お宅」.
• Related宿やどNeutralAn everyday word for a place to stay or an inn, as in 「宿を探す」; today it mostly means lodging at a hotel or inn rather than someone's home.
• Related屋敷やしきWrittenA building plot or an estate of house and grounds, as in 「武家屋敷」. It focuses on the property itself and carries no honorific sense.
• RelatedハウスNeutralLoanword for a house or a greenhouse, as in 「ビニールハウス」.
• Related実家じっかNeutralThe home where one or one's spouse was born, as in 「実家に帰る」. 「お宅」, by contrast, politely refers to the other person's home.
• Related居宅きょたくWrittenWritten word for the house one actually lives in, as in 「居宅介護」; common in welfare administration. It carries no honorific sense.
• RelatedんちCasualColloquial contraction for someone's house, as in 「田中さんち」. It sounds casual and affectionate, with no honorific sense.
• Related住家じゅうかWrittenWritten word for a house one lives in, but rarely used; 「住宅」 is the usual choice.
• Related邸ていWrittenAlso written 「邸」, it refers to an entire estate of house and grounds, as in 「屋敷跡」. Unlike 「お宅」, it carries no honorific sense.

「お宅」 is the default polite way to speak of someone else's home, family, husband or organization. For your own home use 「自宅」; to ask politely where someone lives, 「お住まい」; to a child, 「おうち」. For houses as buildings use 「住宅」 or 「家屋」; for a grand mansion, 「邸宅」 or 「屋敷」; for one's parents' home, 「実家」. 「宿」 now mostly means an inn, and the written 「家宅」「居宅」「住家」 lack 「お宅」's honorific force.

Usage comparisons are AI-assisted and cross-checked by multiple models; for study reference only

1. 家いえ、家庭かてい。その居住者きょじゅうしゃを敬うやまうときに使つかわれる。
2. あなたの家いえ、家庭かてい。相手あいてを敬うやまうときに使つかわれる。
3. あなた。相手あいてを敬うやまうときに使つかわれる。
4. 相手あいてを軽かるく敬うやまったまたは自分じぶんと同等どうとう程度ていどと見みなした二に人称にんしょう単数たんすう。複数ふくすうはおたくら。
5. あなたの夫おっと。相手あいてを敬うやまうときに使つかわれる。
6. あなたの属ぞくする組織そしき。相手あいてを敬うやまうときに使つかわれる。