迦
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(phonetic sound for Buddhist terms)
8 strokes
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How 迦 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
辶 (semantic, “walk”) + 加 (phonetic, jiā)
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 加
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 加 (jiā) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 加 sound component | jiā | to add to, to increase, to augment |
| 架 | jià | frame, rack, stand; to prop up |
| 驾 | jià | to drive, to ride, to sail; carriage, cart |
| 嘉 | jiā | excellent; joyful; auspicious |
| 咖 | kā | coffee; used in transliterations |
| 伽 | jiā | temple; used to transliterations |
| 茄 | qié | eggplant |
| 痂 | jiā | scab |
| 枷 | jiā | the stocks, a cangue scaffold |
| 瘸 | qué | lameness; paralysis of the hands or legs |
| 跏 | jiā | to squat, to sit cross-legged |
| 袈 | jiā | Buddhist cassock |
| 笳 | jiā | reed whistle |
Words containing 迦
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 撒迦利亚书 | Sā jiā lì yà shū | Book of Zechariah |
| 南迦巴瓦峰 | Nán jiā Bā wǎ Fēng | Namcha Barwa (7,782 m), Himalayan mountain |
| 帖撒罗尼迦后书 | Tiě sā luó ní jiā Hòu shū | Second Epistle of St Paul to the Thessalonians |
| 帖撒罗尼迦前书 | Tiě sā luó ní jiā qián shū | First epistle of St Paul to the Thessalonians |
| 撒迦利亚 | Sā jiā lì yà | Zechariah (name); Zechariah (Old Testament prophet) |
| 迦太基 | Jiā tài jī | Carthage |
| 萨迦县 | Sà jiā Xiàn | Sa'gya, a county in Shigatse City 日喀則市|日喀则市[Ri4 ka1 ze2 Shi4], Tibet |
| 帖撒罗尼迦 | Tiě sā luó ní jiā | Thessalonica |
| 迦叶佛 | jiā yè fó | Buddha Kassapa (Pāli) or Kāśyapa (Skt) (one of the Buddhas of the past) |
| 迦南 | Jiā nán | Canaan (in Biblical Palestine) |
| 迦纳 | Jiā nà | Ghana (Tw) |
| 萨迦 | Sà jiā | Sa'gya town and county, Tibetan: Sa skya, in Shigatse prefecture, central Tibet; saga (i.e… |
| 庵摩落迦果 | ān mó luò jiā guǒ | see 餘甘子|余甘子[yu2 gan1 zi3] |
| 释迦佛 | shì jiā fó | Sakyamuni Buddha (Sanskrit: sage of the Sakya); Siddhartha Gautama (563-485 BC), the histo… |
| 弥迦书 | Mí jiā shū | Book of Micah |
| 释迦牟尼佛 | Shì jiā móu ní fó | Sakyamuni Buddha (Sanskrit: sage of the Sakya); Siddhartha Gautama (563-485 BC), the histo… |
| 康乾宗迦峰 | Kāng qián zōng jiā fēng | Kachenjunga (Himalayan peak) |
| 凤梨释迦 | fèng lí shì jiā | atemoya, hybrid of the cherimoya (Annona cherimola) and the sugar apple (Annona squamosa):… |
| 迦持 | jiā chí | the laws of the Buddhism |
| 释迦牟尼 | Shì jiā móu ní | Shakyamuni (Sanskrit for "the Sage of the Shakyas", i.e. the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama) |