佳
beautiful; fine; good
8 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,326 U+4F73
How 佳 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
亻 (semantic, “person”) + 圭 (phonetic, guī)
How to remember it
superb · Heisig RSH #2070
人 person + bricks
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 圭
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 圭 (guī) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 圭 sound component | guī | jade tablet |
| 挂 | guà | to suspend, to put up, to hang; suspense |
| 鞋 | xié | shoes, footwear in general |
| 街 | jiē | street, road, thoroughfare |
| 桂 | guì | cassia, cinnamon |
| 硅 | guī | silicon |
| 哇 | wā | to vomit; an infant's cry |
| 闺 | guī | women's quarters; lady's apartment |
| 蛙 | wā | frog |
| 奎 | kuí | a man's stride; a constellation |
| 卦 | guà | divination, fortune-telling |
| 洼 | wā | pit, hollow, depression; swamp |
| 畦 | qí | sections in a vegetable farm |
| 眭 | suī | a piercing gaze; the evil eye |
| 筀 | guì | bamboo (archaic) |
| 絓 | guà | to hinder, to obstruct |
| 鲑 | guī | salmon; Spheroides vermicularis |
| 恚 | huì | anger, rage |
| 诖 | guà | error, mistake; to deceive, to mislead |
Words containing 佳
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 佳木斯大学 | Jiā mù sī Dà xué | Jiamusi University (Heilongjiang) |
| 佳木斯市 | Jiā mù sī Shì | Jiamusi, prefecture-level city in Heilongjiang Province 黑龍江省|黑龙江省[Hei1 long2 jiang1 Sheng3… |
| 二八佳人 | èr bā jiā rén | 16-year-old beauty |
| 风流佳话 | fēng liú jiā huà | romance; romantic affair |
| 小时了了，大未必佳 | xiǎo shí liǎo liǎo , dà wèi bì jiā | being bright at an early age does not necessarily bring success upon growing up (proverb) |
| 佳木斯 | Jiā mù sī | see 佳木斯市[Jia1 mu4 si1 Shi4] |
| 新春佳节 | xīn chūn jiā jié | Chinese New Year festivities |
| 绝世佳人 | jué shì jiā rén | a woman of unmatched beauty (idiom) |
| 绝代佳人 | jué dài jiā rén | beauty unmatched in her generation (idiom); woman of peerless elegance; prettiest girl eve… |
| 乱世佳人 | Luàn shì Jiā rén | Gone with the Wind (film) |
| 佳人才子 | jiā rén cái zǐ | (lit.) beautiful lady, gifted scholar (idiom); (fig.) pair of ideal lovers |
| 才子佳人 | cái zǐ jiā rén | lit. gifted scholar, beautiful lady (idiom); fig. pair of ideal lovers |
| 佳得乐 | Jiā dé lè | Gatorade (brand) |
| 吉佳利 | Jí jiā lì | Kigali, capital of Rwanda (Tw) |
| 少说为佳 | shǎo shuō wéi jiā | Few words are best.; Brevity is the soul of wit. |
| 佳世客 | Jiā shì kè | JUSCO, Japanese chain of hypermarkets |
| 不佳 | bù jiā | not good |
| 佳人 | jiā rén | beautiful woman |
| 佳县 | Jiā Xiàn | Jia County or Jiaxian, a county in Yulin City 榆林市[Yu2 lin2 Shi4], Shaanxi |
| 上佳 | shàng jiā | excellent; outstanding; great |