Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

伽: nursing, attending

Also: entertainer

JLPT N17 strokesName kanji (jinmeiyō)Your ink: 白 Not met

亻 carries the meaning · 加 is drawn in

7 strokes

Three readings, and the words that use each

ガga · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 伽藍がらんtemple (esp. large one); monastery

キャkya · on'yomi

  • 伽羅きゃらaloes wood (Taxus cuspidata var. nana)

とぎtogi · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 伽とぎnursing; nurse; attending

Also read カ, ギャ, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Memory story · made up to help you remember

“See the person standing tall, ready to interact with the world! When this radical appears on the left, it signals that the kanji describes a human quality, a social relationship, or an action that people perform.”
More in the 亻 person story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
亻

Also built on person (亻)

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加

Also built on add (加)

Also read カ

44 kanji share this on'yomiAll 44

Also read ガ

9 kanji share this on'yomi

Also read キャ

1 kanji shares this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
伽 nursing · 亻
vs茄 eggplant · 艹
伽 has 亻 where 茄 has 艹.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · jiā

Same form: 伽 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
伽 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
伽 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin jiā most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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