佳
jiāJiā HSK6

good, beautiful

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Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 圭 represents the sound.

Components

亻
亻 Meaning component

亻 is a component form of 人.

圭
圭 Sound component
Change in sound

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartkea[k]ˤre good

說文解字

《說文》：“佳，善也。从人，圭聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)