佳
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beautiful; fine; good
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 人 +6
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 佳
- Common rank
- #1,326
- Unicode
- U+4F73
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
superb · Heisig RSH #2070
人 person + bricks
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 佳
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 佳木斯大学 | Jiamusi University (Heilongjiang) | |
| 佳木斯市 | Jiamusi, prefecture-level city in Heilongjiang Province 黑龍江省|黑龙江省[Hei1 long2 jiang1 Sheng3… | |
| 二八佳人 | 16-year-old beauty | |
| 风流佳话 | romance; romantic affair | |
| 小时了了，大未必佳 | being bright at an early age does not necessarily bring success upon growing up (proverb) | |
| 佳木斯 | see 佳木斯市[Jia1 mu4 si1 Shi4] | |
| 新春佳节 | Chinese New Year festivities | |
| 绝世佳人 | a woman of unmatched beauty (idiom) | |
| 绝代佳人 | beauty unmatched in her generation (idiom); woman of peerless elegance; prettiest girl eve… | |
| 乱世佳人 | Gone with the Wind (film) | |
| 佳人才子 | (lit.) beautiful lady, gifted scholar (idiom); (fig.) pair of ideal lovers | |
| 才子佳人 | lit. gifted scholar, beautiful lady (idiom); fig. pair of ideal lovers | |
| 佳得乐 | Gatorade (brand) | |
| 吉佳利 | Kigali, capital of Rwanda (Tw) | |
| 少说为佳 | Few words are best.; Brevity is the soul of wit. | |
| 佳世客 | JUSCO, Japanese chain of hypermarkets | |
| 不佳 | not good | |
| 佳人 | beautiful woman | |
| 佳县 | Jia County or Jiaxian, a county in Yulin City 榆林市[Yu2 lin2 Shi4], Shaanxi | |
| 上佳 | excellent; outstanding; great |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 圭 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 圭 sound part | jade tablet | |
| 挂 | to suspend, to put up, to hang; suspense | |
| 鞋 | shoes, footwear in general | |
| 街 | street, road, thoroughfare | |
| 桂 | cassia, cinnamon | |
| 硅 | silicon | |
| 哇 | to vomit; an infant's cry | |
| 闺 | women's quarters; lady's apartment | |
| 蛙 | frog | |
| 奎 | a man's stride; a constellation | |
| 卦 | divination, fortune-telling | |
| 洼 | pit, hollow, depression; swamp | |
| 畦 | sections in a vegetable farm | |
| 眭 | a piercing gaze; the evil eye | |
| 筀 | bamboo (archaic) | |
| 絓 | to hinder, to obstruct | |
| 鲑 | salmon; Spheroides vermicularis | |
| 恚 | anger, rage | |
| 诖 | error, mistake; to deceive, to mislead |