HanTrace

加

jiā

Other characters with the syllable jia: see all 16 →

Meaning

  • Canada (abbr. for 加拿大[Jia1 na2 da4])
  • to add
  • (math.) plus
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  • to increase; to augment
  • (used before a disyllabic verb, often after an adverb like 不[bu4], 大[da4], 稍[shao1] etc, to indicate that the action applies to sth previously mentioned, as in 稍加改良[shao1 jia1 gai3 liang2] "make some minor improvements to (it)")
  • surname Jia

Example

我可以参加吗?

May I join you?

From 参加 · Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Stroke Order

5 strokes

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