The Chinese Radical: 加


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Meaning
to add    加

Explanation

Used in these characters:
HSK 2
coffee, class, grade

Left: mouth 口, right: to add 加 (For getting power 力 your mouth 口 needs sth. to be 'added' [=to eat])
For the mouth sth. (=good taste) is added by a special class/grade of coffee = 咖啡 [kāfēi]
HSK 3
to add, plus, Canada 加拿大
jiā
Left: power 力, right: mouth 口
(it is meant: to eat) For (getting) power your mouth needs sth. to be 'added'.
HSK 4
to congratulate

Top: add 加 (For getting power 力 your mouth 口 needs sth. to be 'added' [=to eat]), bottom: money 贝/貝 (= cone-shell 目 with two feelers 八 as shell-money)
You should add money to the congratulations.
HSK 5
framework, to support, frame, rack, kidnapping
jià
Top: to add 加 (For getting power 力 your mouth 口 needs sth. to be 'added' [= to eat]), bottom: tree 木
Add a tree to get a framework.
HSK 5
to harness, to draw (a cart etc), to pilot
jià
Top: to add 加 (For getting power 力 your mouth 口 needs sth. to be 'added' [= to eat]), bottom: horse 马/馬 (.. with mane, four legs 灬 and tail ㄅ)
Add this to a horse: A harness to draw/direct it.
HSK 5
excellent, auspicious
jiā
Top: drum 壴 (twig 十 over a bean 豆 [here: image of a drum 豆 on a stand]), bottom: 'to add' 加 (For getting power 力 your mouth 口 needs sth. to be 'added' [=to eat])
If a drum is added, it will be excellent.
HSK 6
crippled, lame
qué
Outside: disease 疒 (An ice- 冫-cold building 广 makes sick.), inside: to add 加, body 肉
The disease that looks like "adding body/flesh" is to be: crippled.
no HSK
(phonetic sound for Buddhist transliteration)
jiā
Left: movement 辶, right: to add 加 (For getting power 力 your mouth 口 needs sth. to be 'added' [= to eat])
In a movement of adding you use: jiā.
no HSK
(phonetic for:) ga or gā
qié
Left: person 亻, right: to add 加 (For getting power 力 your mouth 口 needs sth. to be 'added' [= to eat])
The person adds a: 'ga' or 'gā'
no HSK
eggplant
qié
Top: plant 艹, bottom: to add 加 (For getting power 力 your mouth 口 needs sth. to be 'added' [= to eat])
(There is still space in the garden) The plant, we should add is: the eggplant.
no HSK
cangue (wooden collar as punishment)
jiā
Left: tree 木, right: to add 加 (For getting power 力 your mouth 口 needs sth. to be 'added' [= to eat])
If 'wood' is added to you, then in form of a cangue.

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