康佳 Origin — Chinese Character Wiki

Kāngjiā

Konka

kāng peaceful, healthy

Depicts sound coming from a gong (庚).

Components

庚 Sound Iconic component

gēng 7th heavenly stem

Depicts an instrument like a gong.

◎ Iconic component

characterless component

Depicts sound.

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC

Seal form — Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC

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Component uses

Sound (0 of 3 verified)

慷糠槺

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	khang	[kʰ]ˤaŋ	empty
	khang	k-r̥ˤaŋ	tranquil; at ease
	thang	r̥ˤaŋ	name of first Shang ruler

說文解字

《說文》：“穅，穀皮也。从禾，从米，庚聲。康，穅或省。”

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)

jiā good, beautiful

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

Components

亻 Meaning component

rén person

亻 is a component form of 人.

圭 Sound component

guī jade pointed at top

Change in sound

佳 and 圭 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
佳 *[k]ˤre
圭 *[k]ʷˤe

Character Evolution

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	kea	[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)

康 kāng peaceful, healthy

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Character Evolution

Component uses

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佳 jiā good, beautiful

Components

Character Evolution

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說文解字

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kāng peaceful, healthy

jiā good, beautiful