Jia
Jia proper noun: a surname.
Proper noun (1)
Jia (plural Jias)
- A surname.
Proper noun (2)
Jia
- A county of Yulin, Shaanxi, China.
- Yan was born in 1908 in Jia County, Shaanxi Province.1987, Wolfgang Bartke, “Yan Kuiyao (阎揆要)”, in Who's Who in the People's Republic of China, 2nd edition, K. G. Saur, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 572
- After passing through Mizhi and Yulin, the group eventually reached Jia County by the Yellow River.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
Noun capitalized: JIA
JIA (uncountable)
- Initialism of juvenile idiopathic arthritis.
- Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA), often referred to by doctors today as juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), is a type of arthritis that causes joint inflammation and stiffness for more than six weeks in a child aged 16 or younger. It affects approximately 50,000 children in the United States....2024 September 6, David Zelman, “Understanding Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis -- the Basics”, in WebMD
Forms of Jia
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Origin of Jia
Borrowed from Mandarin 賈／贾 (jiǎ).
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 佳 (Jiā).
Questions about Jia
- What does Jia mean?
- Jia means a surname.
- What part of speech is Jia?
- Jia can be a proper noun or a noun.
Words near Jia in the dictionary
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