jiā
excellent
Phonosemantic compound. 壴 represents the meaning and 加 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 嘉
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
esteemed guest | ||
excellent | ||
carnival (loanword) | ||
to award | ||
laudable |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kˤ<r>aj | kae | jiā | excellent |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 7.8168% of movies
1979th most common character in movies
1845th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Unicode | U+5609 |
Shuowen | “嘉，美也。从壴，加聲。” |
Sources
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