jiā
an ornament attached to a woman's hairpin
Jade 王 added 加 to jewelry; 加 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution
Bronze script
Early Warring States (~400 BC)
Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5061st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+73C8 |
Shuowen | “珈，婦人首飾。从玉，加聲。《詩》曰：‘副笄六珈。’” |
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