jiā
cangue scaffold
Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 加 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
jiā
cangue scaffold; cangue (wooden collar like stocks used to restrain and punish criminals in China)
Most common words with 枷
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
in fetters | ||
cangue (wooden collar like stocks used to restrain and punish criminals in China) | ||
flail |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3663rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+67B7 |
Shuowen | “枷，柫也。从木，加聲。淮南謂之柍。” |
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