佳
佳 — ga, gae
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 아름다울 가, 착할 개
- Romanization
- ga, gae
- English
- good, auspicious; beautiful; delightful
- Mandarin
- jiā
- Japanese on'yomi
- カ, カイ, ケイ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- よい
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Secondary (Jōyō)
- Newspaper frequency
- #1,643 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 人 (9, 6 residual)
- Phonetic component
- 圭
- Unicode
- U+4F73
Parts that make up 佳
How 佳 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 佳 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 人, 圭.
Korean example words with 佳
- 가랑佳郞 Korean gloss: 참한 소년
- 가우佳友 Korean gloss: 좋은 친구
- 가절佳節 Korean gloss: 좋은 명절
- 가향佳香 Korean gloss: 좋은 향기
- 가경佳境 Korean gloss: 경치가 좋은 곳
- 가편佳篇 Korean gloss: 아주 잘된 작품
- 가품佳品 Korean gloss: 질이 좋은 물품
- 가객佳客 Korean gloss: 반갑고 귀한 손님
- 가작佳作 Korean gloss: 매우 뛰어난 작품
- 가약佳約 Korean gloss: 부부가 되자는 약속
- 가필佳筆 Korean gloss: 붓글씨의 훌륭한 재능
- 가경佳景 Korean gloss: 빼어나게 아름다운 경치
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 佳
- 佳作かさく fine (piece of) work; excellent work; work that receives an honourable mention
- 佳境かきょう most interesting part (of a story); climax; good part
- 佳か beautiful; good; excellent
- 佳宴かえん splendid banquet; joyous banquet
- 佳客かかく good visitor; pleasant guest
- 佳句かく beautiful passage of literature
- 佳景かけい beautiful view
- 佳月かげつ good month; bright moon
- 佳言かげん good words; wise saying
- 佳肴かこう delicacy; rare treat; good-eating fish
- 佳趣かしゅ good taste; good impression
- 佳酒かしゅ good wine; good drink
Characters sharing the phonetic 圭
Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.
Other hanja read “가”
Other hanja with radical 人
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences