Chinese surnames

贾

jiǎ · Jia

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 137
Ancestral seat (junwang)
武威
Wikidata
Q6697602

In other languages

  • German Jia
  • English Jia
  • French Jia
  • Japanese 賈
  • Korean 자
  • Russian Цзя
  • Vietnamese Giả
  • Traditional Chinese 賈

Notable historical bearers

Deceased people recorded in Wikidata with this family name, ordered by how many Wikipedias cover them.

  • Huiyuan334 – 416

    Chinese Buddhist monk (334–416)

  • Jia Yi200 BCE – 168 BCE

    Chinese poet

  • Jia Sidao1213 – 1275

    chancellor during the late Song Dynasty of China (1213-1275)

  • Jia Xu147 – 223

    Cao Wei politician and official (147-223)

  • Jia Dao779 – 843

    Tang Dynasty poet

  • Jia Chong217 – 282

    Chinese Jin Dynasty official (217-282)

  • Empress Jia Nanfeng257 – 300

    Chinese Jin dynasty empress consort (257–300)

  • Jia Kui174 – 228

    Cao Wei general and politician (174-228)

  • Jia Xian1010 – 1070

    Chinese mathematician

  • Matthew Kia Yen-wen1925 – 2017

    Catholic archbishop (1925–2017)

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Sources: the Hundred Family Surnames (public domain) with ancestral seats from the chinese-poetry dataset (MIT); spellings and people from Wikidata (CC0).