jià
to marry
Phonosemantic compound. 女 represents the meaning and 家 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
jià
to marry, give a daughter in marriage; (of a woman) to marry; to marry off a daughter; to shift (blame etc)
Most common words with 嫁
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
(of a woman) to marry | ||
to get married (of woman) | ||
to remarry (of widow) | ||
to get married (of woman) | ||
to graft (a branch to a rootstock) |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kˤra-s | kaeH | jià | go (as a bride) to one's new home |
*s-kˤra-s | kaeH | jià | send (one’s daughter) as a bride |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 18.9332% of movies
1464th most common character in movies
2063rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+5AC1 |
Shuowen | “嫁，女適人也。从女，家聲。” |
Sources
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