jiā

an ornament attached to a woman's hairpin

Jade  added  to jewelry;  also provides the pronunciation

Components

Meaning component
wáng king
SoundMeaning component
jiā add

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Early Warring States ~400 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkraːl

說文解字

婦人首飾。从玉加聲。《詩》曰:“副筓六珈。”

Sources

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