qià
adverb #11,685

Meanings

  1. 1 exactly
  2. 2 just
  3. 3 proper

Examples

Qiàhǎo wǒ yě zài.
As it happens, I was there too.
Shíjiān qiàdàohǎochù.
The timing was just right.

Tips

usage
Common in 恰好 (qiàhǎo, just right) and 恰当 (qiàdàng, appropriate).

Components

radical
xīn
heart (radical form of 心 on the left)
Left upright-heart radical (side form of ) indexes in the mind/feeling family with fear, feeling, happy, slow. The original sense of was "an inner feeling of fit" — when something sits just right in one's mind, hence "exactly, precisely, fittingly."
phonetic
to fit; close together
Right supplies the sound — hé drifting to qià through regular palatalisation. also adds a strong semantic flavour: closing, matching, fitting — exactly what carries forward. The heart + fitting gives "feels right, just so" (恰好 just right, 恰当 appropriate, 恰巧 by coincidence).

Stroke Order

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