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加

jiā

add

Depicts making loud noises with the mouth (口) to add power (力) during manual labor.

Components
力 meaning component

力  Meaning component

lì

  

power

口 meaning component

口  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

Evolution

加 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
加 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
加 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
加 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

加  

jiā

add to, increase, augment; to add; plus; (used after an adverb such as 不, 大, 稍 etc, and before a disyllabic verb, to indicate that the action of the verb is applied to sth or sb previously mentioned); to apply (restrictions etc) to (sb); to give (support, consideration etc) to (sth)

加  

Jiā

abbr. for Canada 加拿大[Jiā​ná​dà]; surname Jia

Most common words with 加
Freq.
Word
Meaning

参加

to participate

加

to add

增加

to raise

加油

to add oil

加入

to join

Component uses

Meaning component in 2 characters (0 verified)

珈 哿

Sound component in 17 characters (6 verified)

架 駕 賀 贺 嘉 咖 驾 迦 伽 茄 枷 瘸 袈 痂 珈 跏 笳

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kˤraj

kae

jiā

add


Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 93.3686% of movies

217th most common character in movies

166th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

5

Unicode

U+52A0

Shuowen

“加，語相增加也。从力，从口。”


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