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Mythic Mandarin

夹 (jiā): meaning and stroke order

夹 (jiā) means to press from either side, to place in between, to sandwich, to carry sth under armpit.

夹

Simplified
夹
Traditional
夾, 裌
Pinyin
jiā · jiá · jià

Stroke order of 夹

夹

  • jiā to press from either side; to place in between
  • jiá double-layered (quilt); lined (garment)
  • jià Taiwan pr. used in 夾生|夹生[jia1 sheng1] and 夾竹桃|夹竹桃[jia1 zhu2 tao2]
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 夾

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 夹

  1. jiā Traditional 夾
    • 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]
  2. jiá Traditional 夾
    • double-layered (quilt); lined (garment)
  3. jià Traditional 夾
    • Taiwan pr. used in 夾生|夹生[jia1 sheng1] and 夾竹桃|夹竹桃[jia1 zhu2 tao2]
  4. jiá Traditional 裌
    • variant of 夾|夹[jia2]

Radical and structure

夹
Radical 大 (Kangxi radical 37) · 6 strokes · built from 夫 and 丷

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

夹 in our stories

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  • 学校图书馆最近出了一件怪事：每个星期一早上，还书箱里都会多出一本旧书，书里夹着一朵干花。

    xuéxiào túshūguǎn zuìjìn chū le yí jiàn guàishì měi gè xīngqīyī zǎoshang huánshūxiāng lǐ dōu huì duō chū yì běn jiù shū shū lǐ jiā zhe yì duǒ gān huā

    Something odd had been happening at the university library: every Monday morning there was an extra old book in the return box, with a dried flower pressed inside.

    From the story Flowers in the book return HSK 5

  • 回到酒店，他打开行李箱，发现秘书顺手放进去的一叠旧文件里，夹着一张发黄的草稿纸。

    huídào jiǔdiàn tā dǎkāi xínglixiāng fāxiàn mìshū shùnshǒu fàng jìnqu de yì dié jiù wénjiàn lǐ jiā zhe yì zhāng fāhuáng de cǎogǎozhǐ

    Back at the hotel he opened his suitcase and found, among a pile of old papers his secretary had tucked in, a yellowed sheet of scrap paper.

    From the story The day he rang the bell HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 夹

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).