嘉

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Han character 1.2.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 6 Middle Chinese 6.1 Han character 7 Min Nan 7.1 Hanzi 8 Vietnamese 8.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 壴 + phonetic 加

[edit] Han character

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

1. excellent
2. joyful
3. auspicious

[edit] 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

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

嘉 (Yale ga1)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

嘉

[edit] Readings

• On: か (ka)
• Kun: よみする (yomisuru), よい (yoi)

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

嘉 (hangeul 가, revised ga, McCune-Reischauer ka)

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

嘉 (pinyin jiā (jia1), Wade-Giles chia¹)

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[edit] Middle Chinese

[edit] Han character

嘉 (ga)

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[edit] Min Nan

[edit] Hanzi

嘉 (POJ ka, ke)

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

嘉 (gia)