嘉禾

Chinese

		excellent	cereal; grain
simp. and trad. (嘉禾)		嘉	禾

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Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiāhé

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄚ ㄏㄜˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gaa¹ wo⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ka-hô

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jiāhé
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄚ ㄏㄜˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jiahé
    • Wade–Giles: chia¹-ho²
    • Yale: jyā-hé
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiaher
    • Palladius: цзяхэ (czjaxɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ä⁵⁵ xɤ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gaa¹ wo⁴
    • Yale: gā wòh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gaa¹ wo⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: ga¹ wo⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kaː⁵⁵ wɔː²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ka-hô
    • Tâi-lô: ka-hô
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ka'hooi
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ka⁴⁴⁻²² ho²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ka³³ ho²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ka⁴⁴⁻²² ho¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ka⁴⁴⁻³³ ho²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ka⁴⁴⁻³³ hɤ²³/

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• Middle Chinese: kae hwa

Rime
Character	嘉	禾
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	麻 (98)	戈 (95)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Closed
Division (等)	II	I
Fanqie	古牙切	戸戈切
Baxter	kae	hwa
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kˠa/	/ɦuɑ/
Pan Wuyun	/kᵚa/	/ɦuɑ/
Shao Rongfen	/ka/	/ɣuɑ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kaɨ/	/ɦwa/
Li Rong	/ka/	/ɣuɑ/
Wang Li	/ka/	/ɣuɑ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ka/	/ɣuɑ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jiā	huó
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gaa1	wo4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*kˤ<r>aj  [ɢ]ˤoj/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kraːl  ɡoːl/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	嘉	禾
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jiā	hé
Middle Chinese	‹ kæ ›	‹ hwa ›
Old Chinese	/*kˁ<r>aj/	/*[ɢ]ˁoj/
English	excellent	growing grain
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	嘉	禾
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	5872	4931
Phonetic component	加	禾
Rime group	歌	歌
Rime subdivision	1	3
Corresponding MC rime	嘉	和
Old Chinese	/*kraːl/	/*ɡoːl/

Noun

嘉禾

1. (literary) thriving grain

Proper noun

嘉禾

1. (～縣) Jiahe (a county of Chenzhou, Hunan, China)