夹 (夾) jiā

1. jiā verb to press from either side; to sandwich
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (GHC '夾' 1; Kroll 2015 '夾' 1a, p. 191; Mathews 1931 '夾', p. 82)
2. jiā adjective on both sides of something
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (GHC '夾' 2; Kroll 2015 '夾' 1, p. 191)
3. jiā verb to be near to
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Mathews 1931 '夾', p. 82)
4. jiā verb to pick up with chopsticks
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Mathews 1931 '夾', p. 82)
5. jiā verb to carry in secret
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Mathews 1931 '夾', p. 82)
6. jiā noun a clip; tongs; a pincer
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In this sense 夹 has a similar meaning to 钳夹 (Kroll 2015 '夾' 2)
7. jiá noun a sword hilt
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In place of 铗 (GHC '夾' 7; Kroll 2015 '夾' 5, p. 191)
8. jiā verb to hold to; to cling to
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '夾' 3, p. 191)
9. jiā verb to insert between
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '夾' 4, p. 191; Mathews 1931 '夾', p. 82)
10. jiā measure word a measure word for leaves or pages
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: Especially, palm leaves (GHC '夾' 6)
11. jiá noun two layers; lining
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (GHC '夾' 8; Mathews 1931 '夾', p. 82)
12. jiá proper noun Jia
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
    Notes: (GHC '夾' 9)

Contained in

• 晾衣夹(晾衣夾) clothes pin
• 防夹(防夾) antipinch (e.g. preventing catching fingers in automatic car windows)
• 夹界(夾界) to share a border
• 夹脚拖鞋(夾腳拖鞋) flip-flops
• 夹生饭(夾生飯) half-cooked rice; half-finished job that is difficult to complete because it was not done properly in the first instance
• 文件夹(文件夾) folder; file (for documents) ; folder
• 钱夹(錢夾) wallet
• 收藏夹(收藏夾) favorites folder (web browser)
• 皮夹(皮夾) wallet
• 肉夹馍(肉夾饃) meat wedged in steamed bun; Chinese burger; sliced meat sandwich popular in north China
• 夹角(夾角) angle
• 夹盘(夾盤) chuck (for a drill etc)
• 发夹(髮夾) hair clip
• 夹子(夾子) a clip; a clamp ; a wallet ; a kind of fried cake
• 夹层(夾層) interval between two layers; double-layered; mezzanine
• 受夹板气(受夾板氣) to be attacked by both sides in a quarrel; to be caught in the crossfire
• 夹紧(夾緊) to clamp; to grip
• 夹心饼干(夾心餅乾) sandwich cookie
• 夹脚拖(夾腳拖) flip-flops
• 纸夹(紙夾) paper clip
• 夹击(夾擊) pincer attack; attack from two or more sides; converging attack; attack on a flank; fork in chess, with one piece making two attacks
• 夹馅(夾餡) stuffed (of food); with filling
• 双人包夹(雙人包夾) double team
• 衣夹(衣夾) clothespin; clothes peg; portmanteau
• 夹钳(夾鉗) tongs; a clamp
• 夹七夹八(夾七夾八) completely mixed up; in a muddle
• 夹道欢迎(夾道歡迎) to line the streets in welcome
• 夹住(夾住) to grip
• 夹袍(夾袍) jiapao
• 夹当儿(夾當兒) crucial moment
• 夹当(夾當) crucial moment; difficulty
• 夹持(夾持) to clamp; to support on each side
• 夹袋中人物(夾袋中人物) to keep [notes on] people in a bag
• 夹榜(夾榜) a board with an inscription to be hung above a door
• 夹缝(夾縫) crack; crevice
• 夹心(夾心) to fill with stuffing (e.g. in cooking); stuffed
• 缠夹二先生(纏夾二先生) annoying muddle-headed person who gabbles unintelligibly
• 夹板船(夾板船) a large, two level sailing ship
• 夹批(夾批) critical annotations between the lines
• 夹棍(夾棍) leg vise (torture instrument)
• 鳄鱼夹(鱷魚夾) crocodile clip; spring clip
• 雨夹雪(雨夾雪) sleet; mixture of snow and rain
• 书夹(書夾) boards for clamping books together
• 夹生(夾生) half-cooked; not completely done, solved, developed etc
• 夹断(夾斷) to nip (i.e. cut short); to pinch off
• 夹带(夾帶) to carry within it; to smuggle [notes smuggled into an exam] ; to be mixed in; to intersperse
• 夹塞儿(夾塞兒) to cut into a line; queue-jumping
• 夹衣 lined jacket ; a lined garment

Also contained in

贾夹威德 、 夹山 、 夹江

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 卷一百四十七 志第一百 儀衞五 Volume 147 Treatises 100: Ceremonial Guards 5 History of Song 宋史 — count: 36
• 卷二十三下　　　志第十三下　　儀衛下 Volume 23b Treatises 14: Ceremonies 2 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 35
• 卷二十三上　　　志第十三上　　儀衛上 Volume 23a Treatises 13: Ceremonies 1 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 28
• 卷一百八十 志第一百三十三 食貨下二 Volume 180 Treatises 133: Finance and Economics 2b History of Song 宋史 — count: 25
• 卷七十九　志第二十九: 　輿服二 Volume 79 Treatises 32: Carriages and Clothes 2 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 23
• 卷七十八　志第二十八: 　輿服一 Volume 78 Treatises 31: Carriages and Clothes 1 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 19
• 卷四十一　志第二十二:　儀衞上 常朝儀衛內外立仗、常行儀衛行仗 法駕黃麾仗 Volume 41 Treatises 22: Ceremonial Guards 1 - Inner and Outer Armed Guards of Honor in Regular Court Assemblies; Marching Armed Guards; Armed Imperial Command Carriage History of Jin 金史 — count: 18
• 卷一百四十五 志第九十八 儀衞三 Volume 145 Treatises 98: Ceremonial Guards 3 History of Song 宋史 — count: 17
• 卷一百三十一 志第八十四 樂六 Volume 131 Treatises 84: Music 6 History of Song 宋史 — count: 16
• 卷四十　　志第二十一:　樂下 宗廟樂歌 殿庭樂歌 鼓吹導引曲、采茨曲 Volume 40 Treatises 21: Music 2 - Ancestral Shrine Music and Songs, Palace and Court Music and Songs, Tunes Led by Wind Instruments, Selection of Lyrics and Music History of Jin 金史 — count: 13

Collocations

• 夹钟 (夾鐘) 律中夾鐘 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《月令》 Proceedings of Government in the Different Months — count: 22
• 夹谷 (夾谷) 公會齊侯于夾谷 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 定公 Lord Ding — count: 13
• 夹河 (夾河) 與秦桓公夾河而盟 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《秦本紀》 Annals of Qin — count: 5
• 夹门 (夾門) 夾門坐 — Mozi 墨子, 卷十五 號令 Book 15 - Commands and Orders — count: 5
• 西夹 (西夾) 西夾南向 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 顧命 Zhou Shu - Testamentary Charge — count: 4
• 生夹 (生夾) 上生夾鐘 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷三　天文訓 Chapter 3: Celestial Phenomena — count: 4
• 夹日 (夾日) 赤鳥夾日以飛 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 哀公 Lord Ai — count: 4
• 夹水 (夾水) 夾水而陳 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 哀公 Lord Ai — count: 4
• 人夹 (人夾) 是以東者越人夾削其壤地 — Mozi 墨子, 卷五 非攻中 Book 5 - Condemnation of Offensive War II — count: 4
• 夹右 (夾右) 夾右碣石入于河 — Book of Documents 尚書, 夏書 禹貢 Xia Shu - Tribute of Yu — count: 3