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珈

珈 U+73C8, 珈 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-73C8 ← 珇 [U+73C7] CJK Unified Ideographs 珉 → [U+73C9]

Translingual

Han character

珈 (Kangxi radical 96, 玉+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 一土大尸口 (MGKSR), four-corner 1610₀, composition ⿰𤣩加)

References

• KangXi: page 729, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20915
• Dae Jaweon: page 1141, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1109, character 3
• Unihan data for U+73C8

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		珈

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 珈
Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (加) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
妿	*kaːl, *qaːl
賀	*ɡaːls
迦	*ka, *kal, *kraːl
茄	*ɡa, *ɡal, *kraːl
伽	*ɡa, *ɡal
枷	*ɡa, *ɡal, *kraːl
嘉	*kraːl
加	*kraːl
笳	*kraːl
痂	*kraːl
袈	*kraːl
跏	*kraːl
珈	*kraːl
鴐	*kraːl
架	*kraːls
駕	*kraːls
瘸	*ɡʷal

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kraːl) : semantic 王 (“jade”) + phonetic 加 (OC *kraːl).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiā (jia¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gaa¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jiā
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jia
    • Wade–Giles: chia¹
    • Yale: jyā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jia
    • Palladius: цзя (czja)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕjä⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gaa¹
    • Yale: gā
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gaa¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ga¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kaː⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /kˠa/

Rime
Character	珈
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	麻 (98)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	古牙切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kˠa/
Pan Wuyun	/kᵚa/
Shao Rongfen	/ka/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kaɨ/
Li Rong	/ka/
Wang Li	/ka/
Bernard Karlgren	/ka/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jiā
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gaa1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*kraːl/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	珈
Reading #	1/1
No.	5880
Phonetic component	加
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	嘉
Old Chinese	/*kraːl/
Notes	見詩鄘風

Definitions

珈

1. an ornament attached to a woman's hairpin

Compounds

珞珈山 (Luòjiāshān)

珞珈雅苑 (Luòjiāyǎyuàn)

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Japanese

Kanji

珈

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• Go-on: け (ke)
• Kan-on: か (ka)

Compounds

• 珈(コー)琲(ヒー) (kōhī, “coffee”)

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Korean

Hanja

珈 • (ga) (hangeul 가, revised ga, McCune–Reischauer ka, Yale ka)

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