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Jia

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    A county of Yulin, Shaanxi, China.

    "Yan was born in 1908 in Jia County, Shaanxi Province."

Noun
  1. 1
    Initialism of juvenile idiopathic arthritis. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable

    "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. Inflammation causes redness, swelling, warmth, and soreness in the joints, although many children with JRA do not complain of joint pain."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Mandarin 賈／贾 (jiǎ).

Etymology 2

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 佳 (Jiā).

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