jiā

transcription of sanskrit 'gha' in buddhist texts ('samgha'

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
亻 meaning component

  Meaning component

rén

  

person

is a component form of .

加 sound component

  Sound component

jiā

  

add

Definitions

 

jiā

transcription of sanskrit 'gha' in buddhist texts ('samgha', etc.); (nursing; attending; entertainer) (Jap.); temple; in Chinese this character is not used alone; traditionally used as phonetic for ga; also pr. [gā]; also pr. [qié]

Most common words with 伽
Freq.
Word
Meaning

also pr. [gā]

瑜伽

yoga (loanword)

伽利略

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Italian scientist

伽马射线

gamma rays

伽蓝

Buddhist temple (loanword from Sanskrit "samgharama")

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.0594% of movies

2534th most common character in movies

2532nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+4F3D


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