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加

加

加 U+52A0, 加
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-52A0
← 功
[U+529F] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 务 →
[U+52A1]
See also: 叻 and 另

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

加 (radical 19 力+3, 5 strokes, cangjie input 大尸口 (KSR), four-corner 46000, composition ⿰力口)

Derived characters

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 146, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2297
  • Dae Jaweon: page 329, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 366, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+52A0

Buyeo

Noun

加 ‎(ga)

  1. king

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 加

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 加
Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (加) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
妿 *kaːl, *qaːl
賀 *ɡaːls
迦 *ka, *kal, *kraːl
茄 *ɡa, *ɡal, *kraːl
伽 *ɡa, *ɡal
枷 *ɡa, *ɡal, *kraːl
嘉 *kraːl
加 *kraːl
笳 *kraːl
痂 *kraːl
袈 *kraːl
跏 *kraːl
珈 *kraːl
鴐 *kraːl
架 *kraːls
駕 *kraːls
瘸 *ɡʷal

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 力 + 口 ‎(“mouth”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 加
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 麻 (98)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 古牙切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kˠa/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kᵚa/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ka/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kaɨ/
Li
Rong		 /ka/
Wang
Li		 /ka/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ka/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jiā
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 加
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jiā
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kæ ›
Old
Chinese		 /*kˤraj/
English add

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 加
Reading # 1/1
No. 5873
Phonetic
component		 加
Rime
group		 歌
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 嘉
Old
Chinese		 /*kraːl/

Definitions

加

  1. to put on top of another object
  2. to add; to put in
    加鹽 / 加盐  ―  jiāyán  ―  to add salt
  3. to increase; to raise
  4. to impose; to foist; to grant
  5. placed after a monosyllabic adverb to indicate an increase in the degree; more
  6. (arithmetic) to add

Antonyms

  • 減／减 (jiǎn, “to subtract”)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

加

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. add, addition, increase
  2. Canada

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

加 • ‎(ga) (hangeul 가, McCune-Reischauer ka)

Definitions

  1. To add

Compounds

  1. 加入 (가입)
  2. 加濕機 (가습기)
  3. 追加 (추가)
  4. 增加 (증가)
  5. 參加 (참가)
  6. 添加 (첨가)

Vietnamese

Han character

加 (gia, chơ)

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