jiā
good, beautiful
Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 圭 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 佳
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
optimum | ||
fine | ||
beautiful woman | ||
Canon (Japanese company) | ||
beauty |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[k]ˤre | kea | jia | good |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 21.1597% of movies
1418th most common character in movies
1583rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+4F73 |
Shuowen | “佳，善也。从人，圭聲。” |
Sources
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