jiá

lance

To strike  someone on the nose 

Components
一 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

one

自 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

self

戈 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

spear

Evolution

戛 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
戛 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

jiá

lance; tap or strike lightly; to tap; to scrape; to chirp; custom

() 

jiá

variant of [jiá]

Most common words with 戛
Freq.
Word
Meaning

戛纳

Cannes (France)

戛然而止

with a grunting sound it stops (idiom); to come to an end spontaneously (esp. of sound)

lance

戛然

to be loud and clear

戛戛独造

creative

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kˤrik

keat

jiá

a kind of lance


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4503rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+621B

Shuowen

“戛,戟也。从戈,从。讀若棘。”


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