excellent

Components

Meaning component
jiā add

add

Sound component
able to

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkaːlʔ

說文解字

可也。从可加聲。《詩》曰:“哿矣富人。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica