Jia
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English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Mandarin 賈／贾 (jiǎ).
Proper noun
Jia (plural Jias)
- A surname.
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
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 佳 (Jiā).
Proper noun
Jia
- A county of Yulin, Shaanxi, China.
- 2002 [1995], Ni Zhen, translated by Chris Berry, Memoirs from the Beijing Film Academy: the Genesis of China's Fifth Generation, Duke University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 179:
- After passing through Mizhi and Yulin, the group eventually reached Jia County by the Yellow River.
- 2002, Dazhang Sun, “The Qing Dynasty”, in Nancy S. Steinhardt, editor, Chinese Architecture, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 339, column 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.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Jia.
Translations
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Jia Xian”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1445, column 3