夹 meaning and pronunciation

夹
Simplified character
夾
Traditional character

夹 English definition

jiā
  • to press from either side
  • to place in between
  • to sandwich
  • to carry sth under armpit
  • wedged between
  • between
  • to intersperse
  • to mix
  • to mingle
  • clip
  • folder
  • Taiwan pr. [jia2]

HSK levels

Characters with the same pronunciation

  • 伽 : traditionally used as phonetic for ga; also pr. [ga1];
  • 佳 : beautiful; fine; good;
  • 加 : 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);
  • 嘉 : excellent; auspicious;
  • 夾 : folder
  • 家 : home; family; (polite) my (sister, uncle etc); classifier for families or businesses; refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China; noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian; CL:個|个[ge4];
  • 枷 : cangue (wooden collar like stocks used to restrain and punish criminals in China);
  • 梜 : (old) chopsticks; Taiwan pr. [jia2];
  • 浃 : soaked; to wet; to drench; Taiwan pr. [jia2];
  • 猳 : mythical ape; variant of 豭[jia1];
  • 珈 : gamma; jewelry;
  • 痂 : scab;
  • 笳 : whistle made of reed;
  • 耞 : flail (for threshing grain); old variant of 枷[jia1];
  • 茄 : phonetic character used in loanwords for the sound 'jia', although 夹 is more common;
  • 葭 : reed; Phragmites communis;
  • 袈 : Buddhist monk's robe;
  • 豭 : boar; male pig;
  • 跏 : to sit cross-legged;
  • 迦 : (phonetic sound for Buddhist terms);
  • 镓 : gallium (chemistry);
  • 麚 : buck; stag;

Words containing 夹, by HSK level

嘉 庭