Chou Collection, Lower Volume
Radical: Big (dà)
Kangxi Strokes: 7
Page 250, Entry 10
Pronounced jia. Meaning to support or hold from both left and right sides.
Book of Documents (Shujing), Multiple Regions (Duofang): Why do you not assist and support our King of Zhou?
Zuo Tradition (Zuo Zhuan), Twenty-sixth Year of Duke Xi: To assist King Cheng.
Also refers to being near or adjacent.
Book of Documents (Shujing), Timber of the Catalpa (Zicai): To cherish and soothe distant regions means to bring them near.
Commentary: To bring distant regions into submission is to make them feel close.
Also refers to possessing concurrently or having at the same time.
Lü Wen's Eulogy for Di Renjie: Secretly conferring five dragons, flying while carrying the sun.
Also refers to sutra boards (fan jia) (protective wooden boards for Buddhist scriptures).
Comprehensive Mirror (Tongjian): Emperor Yizong of Tang set up lecture seats in the imperial palace, personally chanted scriptures, and copied sutra boards by hand.
Also refers to pincers or clamps, metaphorically used for glib, stubborn entanglements.
Liu Zongyuan's Petition for Skill (Qiqiao Wen): As stubborn as if clamped by pliers.
Also pronounced jia. Meaning the side or flank; also refers to holding or grasping.
Jia bow, see Commentary on the Summer Officials of the Rites of Zhou (Zhouli Xia Guan Zhu). A bow with more outward curvature and less inward curvature is called a jia bow.
Also refers to Sword Jia (a type of sword).
Tao Hongjing's Record of Swords (Dao Jian Lu): Kong Jia of the Shang dynasty collected iron from Ox Head Mountain and cast a sword with the character jia inscribed on it.
Also pronounced xie.
Shuowen (Explaining Characters): Meaning clever or agile.
Also used as a surname.
History of the Former Han (Qian Han Shu), Treatise on Arts and Literature (Yiwen Zhi): There is the Jia Clan Spring and Autumn Annals.
Also equivalent to the character for narrow (xia).
History of the Later Han (Hou Han Shu), Chronicles of the Eastern Barbarians (Dongyi Zhuan): In Eastern Woju, the terrain is narrow from east to west and long from north to south.
Six Books Standardized Errors (Liushu Zheng'e): The character structure consists of two person radicals and a simplified component. Two people supporting each other under the arms creates the meaning of jia.
