佳 (jiā)

佳 means good, beautiful, or excellent. Chinese uses it to praise people, works, food, or occasions; Japanese keeps that positive sense in compounds.

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What 佳 means

It expresses praise, beauty, or excellence. Chinese compounds show what is praised. For 佳 in Japanese, compounds keep a positive sense; the reading depends on each word.

佳 combines 人 (“person”) with 圭 as its sound component. Older Chinese sources also list “large” and “praise.” A Small Seal form (an ancient Chinese script style) is recorded; as of 2026, its first appearance remains undated. Chinese, Japanese, and Korean fonts can vary in stroke details.

Refined praise; the compound names its target.

佳人 can mean a beautiful or worthy person, sometimes a wife—not automatically a girlfriend.

Who writes 佳

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Don't confuse it with

嘉

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佳 vs 嘉: both can be positive, but they are distinct characters, not interchangeable spellings.

Combination ideas

A beautiful or worthy person; in some contexts, a wife.

A fine work.

Questions people ask

Why does 佳 show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.