嘉

嘉	U+5609, 嘉 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5609

← 嘈
[U+5608]

CJK Unified Ideographs

嘊 →
[U+560A]

Translingual

Han character

嘉 (radical 30, 口+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 土口廿口 (GRTR) or X土口廿口 (XGRTR), four-corner 4046₁, composition ⿱壴加)

Derived characters

𠏼, 𡣗, 𤀺, 𤐵, 𤪘, 䕒

Descendants

𛀛

References

KangXi: page 205, character 7
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4176
Dae Jaweon: page 427, character 25
Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 672, character 11
Unihan data for U+5609

Chinese

simp. and trad.		嘉

Glyph origin

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 壴 + phonetic 加 (OC *kraːl).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): jiā (jia¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄚ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gaa¹
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): ka / kee

(Teochew, Peng'im): gia¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: jiā
  - Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄚ
  - Wade–Giles: chia¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jia
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ä⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: gaa¹
  - Yale: gā
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gaa¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: ga¹
  - IPA ^(key): /käː⁵⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ka
  - Tâi-lô: ka
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kaf
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ka³³/
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen): /ka⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kee
  - Tâi-lô: kee
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /kɛ⁴⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: gia¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kia
  - IPA ^(key): /kia³³/

Middle Chinese: /kˠa/▼

Rime
Character	嘉
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

Old Chinese▼
(Baxter–Sagart): /*kˤ<r>aj/

(Zhengzhang): /*kraːl/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	嘉
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jiā
Middle Chinese	‹ kæ ›
Old Chinese	/*kˁ<r>aj/
English	excellent
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	嘉
Reading #	1/1
No.	5872
Phonetic component	加
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	嘉
Old Chinese	/*kraːl/

Definitions

嘉

Compounds

南有嘉魚／南有嘉鱼
可嘉 (kějiā)
嘉偶天成
嘉勉 (jiāmiǎn)
嘉南大圳
嘉南平原
嘉名
嘉問／嘉问
嘉客
嘉尚
嘉峪關／嘉峪关 (Jiāyùguān)
嘉平
嘉年華會／嘉年华会
嘉惠
嘉慶／嘉庆 (Jiāqìng)
嘉戎
嘉會／嘉会
嘉歲／嘉岁
嘉殽 (jiāyáo)
嘉澍
嘉獎／嘉奖 (jiājiǎng)

嘉玉
嘉石
嘉祐
嘉祐四友
嘉祐集
嘉禮／嘉礼
嘉禾
嘉穀／嘉谷
嘉義／嘉义 (Jiāyì)
嘉耦
嘉肴
嘉興／嘉兴 (Jiāxīng)
嘉蔬
嘉言
嘉言善行
嘉言懿行
嘉許／嘉许 (jiāxǔ)
嘉話／嘉话
嘉謨／嘉谟
嘉貺／嘉贶
嘉賓／嘉宾 (jiābīn)

嘉釀／嘉酿
嘉陵江 (Jiālíng Jiāng)
嘉靖
嘉魚／嘉鱼 (Jiāyú)
嘉麗妹妹／嘉丽妹妹
孔嘉
孝行可嘉
孟嘉落帽
強飯為嘉／强饭为嘉
忠言嘉謨／忠言嘉谟
旨酒嘉肴
柔嘉
永嘉
永嘉之亂／永嘉之乱
百嘉
盈車嘉穗／盈车嘉穗
科西嘉 (Kēxījiā)
精神可嘉
落帽孟嘉
讜言嘉論／讜言嘉论

Japanese

Kanji

嘉

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

Go-on: け (ke)
Kan-on: か (ka)
Kun: よみする (yomisuru, 嘉する); よい (yoi, 嘉い)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

嘉 (gia)

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