"Jia" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 jiā home / family / (polite) my (sister, uncle etc) / classifier for families or businesses / refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China / noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian / CL:個|个[ge4]
 jiā to add / plus / (used after an adverb such as 不, 大, 稍 / etc, and before a disyllabic verb, to indicate that the action of the verb is applied to sth or sb previously mentioned) / to apply (restrictions etc) to (sb) / to give (support, consideration etc) to (sth)
 jià price / value / (chemistry) valence
 jiǎ variant of 假[jia3] / to borrow
 jià vacation
 jià to support / frame / rack / framework / classifier for planes, large vehicles, radios etc
 jiǎ first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] / (used for an unspecified person or thing) / first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc) / letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / armor plating / shell or carapace / (of the fingers or toes) nail / bladed leather or metal armor (old) / ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old) / civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲[bao3 jia3] system (old) / ancient Chinese compass point: 75°
 jià to harness / to draw (a cart etc) / to drive / to pilot / to sail / to ride / your good self / prefixed word denoting respect (polite 敬辭|敬辞[jing4 ci2])
 jiā beautiful / fine / good
 jiā to press from either side / to place in between / to sandwich / to carry sth under armpit / wedged between / between / to intersperse / to mix / to mingle / clip / folder / Taiwan pr. [jia2]
 gā hold between / lined / narrow lane
 jiá variant of 夾|夹[jia2]
 jià Taiwan pr. used in 夾生|夹生[jia1 sheng1] and 夾竹桃|夹竹桃[jia1 zhu2 tao2]
 jiā excellent / auspicious / to praise / to commend
 Jiǎ surname Jia
 jià (of a woman) to marry / to marry off a daughter / to shift (blame etc)
 jiā (phonetic sound for Buddhist terms)
 jiā traditionally used as phonetic for ga / also pr. [ga1] / also pr. [qie2]
 jiá cheeks
 jià to sow grain / (farm) crop
 jiā old variant of 夾|夹[jia1]
 jiā phonetic character used in loanwords for the sound "jia", although 夾|夹[jia2] is more common
 jiā cangue (wooden collar like stocks used to restrain and punish criminals in China)
 jiǎ potassium (chemistry)
 jiǎ cape (geography) / headland
 jiá pod (botany)
 jiá variant of 戛[jia2]
 jiá name of a district in Henan
 jiǎ shoulder blade
 jiā Buddhist monk's robe
 jiā scab
 jiā soaked / to wet / to drench / Taiwan pr. [jia2]
 jiā gamma / jewelry
 jiā to sit cross-legged
 jiā whistle made of reed
 jiá lined
 jiá see 蛺蝶|蛱蝶[jia2 die2]
 jiǎ far / grand
 jiā reed / Phragmites communis
 jiā gallium (chemistry)
 jiá pincers for use at a fire / sword
 jiǎ obstruction in the intestine
 jiá indifferent
 jiā buck / stag
 jiā boar / male pig
 jiá variant of 唊[jia2]
 jiā flail (for threshing grain) / old variant of 枷[jia1]
 jiá variant of 夹[jia2], lined
 jiá to stumble
 jiǎ small jade cup with ears
 jiǎ (grapefruit)
 jiǎ (evergreen shrub) / Celtis sinensis
 jiǎ Thea sinensis
 jiá chopstick
 jià sentence-final particle, contraction of "嘅呀" (Cantonese) / see also 嘅[kai4]
 jiǎ Japanese variant of 假[jia3]
 jià Japanese variant of 價|价
 jiā variant of 家[jia1]
 jiǎ variant of 假[jia3]
 jiǎ good
 jià cloth (archaic), esp. of southern ethnic groups
 jiǎ Catalpa, a genus of mostly deciduous trees / old term for Camellia sinensis, the tea plant 茶 / also called Thea sinensis / small evergreen shrub (Mallotus japonicus)
 jiā mythical ape / variant of 豭[jia1]
 jiá variant of 頰|颊[jia2]
 jiā old variant of 家[jia1]
 jiā used in the transcription of "okapi" 㺢㹢狓[huo4 jia1 pi1]
 jiá (old) to talk recklessly / to talk nonsense / talkative
 jiǎ variant of 斝[jia3]
 jiā (old) chopsticks / Taiwan pr. [jia2]
𬂩 jiā (old) chopsticks / Taiwan pr. [jia2]
 Jiā the name of a river that flows through Shandong and Jiangsu
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