jiā
add
Depicts making loud noises with the mouth (口) to add power (力) during manual labor.
Evolution
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
jiā
add to, increase, augment; to add; plus; (used after an adverb such as 不, 大, 稍 etc, and before a disyllabic verb, to indicate that the action of the verb is applied to sth or sb previously mentioned); to apply (restrictions etc) to (sb); to give (support, consideration etc) to (sth)
Jiā
abbr. for Canada 加拿大[Jiānádà]; surname Jia
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