茄 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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jiā, qié

eggplant

Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 加 represents the sound.

Components

艹 Meaning component

cao, cǎo

grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

加 Sound component

jiā

add

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

jiā

eggplant; phonetic character used in loanwords for the sound "jia", although 夹 is more common

Most common words with 茄

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	番茄	tomato
	雪茄	cigar (loanword)
	茄子	aubergine
	茄	phonetic character used in loanwords for the sound "jia", although 夹 is more common
	番茄酱	ketchup

Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 9.7229% of movies

1945th most common character in movies

3136th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

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