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Mythic Mandarin

嫁 (jià): meaning and stroke order

嫁 (jià) means (of a woman) to marry, to marry off a daughter, to shift (blame etc).

嫁

Simplified
嫁
Traditional
嫁 (same form)
Pinyin
jià

Stroke order of 嫁

嫁

  • jià (of a woman) to marry; to marry off a daughter
  • 13 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 嫁

  1. jià
    • (of a woman) to marry
    • to marry off a daughter
    • to shift (blame etc)

Radical and structure

嫁
Radical 女 (Kangxi radical 38) · 13 strokes · 女 on the left, 家 on the right

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.

Words with 嫁

嫁 in our stories

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  • 分手前，祝英台只好说，家里有个“九妹”，长得和自己一模一样，愿意做媒把她嫁给他。

    fēnshǒu qián Zhù Yīngtái zhǐhǎo shuō jiā lǐ yǒu gè jiǔmèi zhǎng de hé zìjǐ yìmú-yíyàng yuànyì zuòméi bǎ tā jià gěi tā

    Before they parted, Zhu Yingtai could only say that at home she had a "ninth sister" who looked exactly like her, and she offered to arrange for her to marry him.

    From the story The Butterfly Lovers HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 嫁

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).