What 贾 means
As a surname, 贾 is Jiǎ; older trade words use gǔ.
Early forms appear in oracle-bone writing (carved on bones or shells), bronze writing, Chu and Qin bamboo slips, seal script, and clerical script. Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese character dictionary, links 貝 (“shell money”) and 襾 (a sound element) to the form; it distinguishes traveling 商 merchants from settled 賈 sellers. Some surname histories trace Jia to a Jia state or fief in Shanxi.
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Who writes 贾
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What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsJiǎ, the surname Jia.
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Combination ideas
2Classical term for merchants or trade.
To bring trouble on yourself.
Questions people ask
1Why does 贾 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.
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How to type or find 贾
- Search it as
- jia · jia3 · gǔ · surname · merchant · 商贾
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
贾CSS
\8D3Ehow to type 贾
In a Mandarin Pinyin input method, type jia and choose 贾 from the candidates.
traditional
Choose 賈 for Traditional Chinese text.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
贾
HTML hex
贾
CSS content
content: "\8D3E";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%B4%BE
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.