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Jia
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Appendix:Variations of "jia"
English
Pronunciation
jyäKiahsien or Chia-hsien 941 2
Etymology 1
en cmn - 賈.
Proper noun
s
en.
Statistics
According to the 2010 United States Census, Jia is the 12802nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2409 individuals. Jia is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (96.85%) individuals.
Etymology 2
Jia County
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn 佳 Jiā.
Proper noun
en county prefecture-level city/Yulin province/Shaanxi c/China.
en 1987 Wolfgang Bartke Yan Kuiyao (zh :zh:阎揆要 阎揆要) Who's Who in the People's Republic of China https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinpeoples02edbart/ 2nd K. G. Saur 3-598-10610-6 470257263 2473633M 572 https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinpeoples02edbart/page/572/ Yan was born in 1908 in Jia County, Shaanxi Province.
en 2002 1995 Ni Zhen Chris Berry Memoirs from the Beijing Film Academy: the Genesis of China's Fifth Generation https://archive.org/details/memoirsfrombeiji0000nizh/ w:Duke University Press 0-8223-2970-0 50841432 179 https://archive.org/details/memoirsfrombeiji0000nizh/page/179/ After passing through Mizhi and Yulin, the group eventually reached Jia County by the Yellow River.
en 2002 Sun Dazhang Nancy S. Steinhardt The Qing Dynasty Chinese Architecture https://archive.org/details/chinesearchitect0000unse/ 0-300-09559-7 2001007638 186413872 15550478M 339 https://archive.org/details/chinesearchitect0000unse/page/339/ 2 Syncretism, however, was the main attraction of Daoism for Qing China. In some instances, Buddhist rites were adopted by Daoist monasteries. In other cases, Buddhist monasteries merged with Daoist ones. Such blending could result in primarily Buddhist temple complexes where certain elements of Daoist worship were retained, as was the case at Baiyunshan in Jia county, Shaanxi; half-Buddhist, half-Daoist settings such as Gaomiao in Zhongwei; or fully syncretic monasteries in which Buddhas, Laozi, and Confucius were all worshiped, such as the Xuankongsi in Hunyuan, Shanxi.
en
Translations
county
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 佳 Jiā
Japanese: ja
References
Further reading
en 1998 Jia Xian Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/ 2 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 1445 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1445/ 3
Anagrams
en aij Jai aji