Zi Collection, Page Position: Lower Radical: Again (yòu) Stroke count: 9 Page 166, Entry 11 Pronounced jia (rising tone). Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Simple and Compound Characters): To borrow. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Sometimes written in a variant form; also commonly written as jia. Pronounced xia (level tone). A surname. Spring and Autumn Annals Commentary (Chunqiu Zhuan): In the state of Jin there was Jia Jia. Commonly written as xia.