Hai Collection, Middle Volume
Radical: Bird (niǎo)
Character: Jía
Kangxi stroke count: 18
Page 1489, Entry 17
Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Pronounced jia.
Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhyme Meetings (Yunhui): Pronounced jia.
Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Cuckoo bird. Also refers to the bird known as bijia.
Correct Meaning Thoroughly (Zhengzitong): Ouyang Xiu wrote a poem on the bijia bird: The dragon towers and phoenix pavilions are lush and towering; in the deep palace, one does not hear the sound of the water clock. The red silk candles grieve that the night is short; the green-windowed bijia bird urges the arrival of dawn.
Note: The bijia is a bird that urges the dawn; in the capital, it is called the summer chicken.
Also a surname. Jia Zhi was a minister to the Yellow Emperor.
History of the Former Han (Qianhan Shu), Treatise on Literature: The school of Yin and Yang contains one chapter by Jia Zhi the Master.
Also, Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced xie. A type of bird.