The Chinese Radical: 加


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Meaning
to add    加

Explanation

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 2
coffee, class, grade

Left: mouth , right: to add (For getting power your mouth needs sth. to be 'added' [=to eat])
For the mouth sth. (=good taste) is added by a special class/grade of coffee = 咖啡 [kāfēi]  
JLPT HSK 3
to add, plus, Canada 加拿大
jiā
Left: power , right: mouth
(it is meant: to eat) For (getting) power your mouth needs sth. to be 'added'.  
JLPT HSK 4
to congratulate

Top: add (For getting power your mouth needs sth. to be 'added' [=to eat]), bottom: money /貝 (= cone-shell with two feelers as shell-money)
You should add money to the congratulations.  
JLPT HSK 5
framework, to support, frame, rack, kidnapping
jià
Top: to add (For getting power your mouth needs sth. to be 'added' [= to eat]), bottom: tree
Add a tree to get a framework.  
JLPT HSK 5
to harness, to draw (a cart etc), to pilot
jià
Top: to add (For getting power your mouth needs sth. to be 'added' [= to eat]), bottom: horse /馬 (.. with mane, four legs und tail ㄅ)
Add this to a horse: A harness to draw/direct it.  
JLPT HSK 5
excellent, auspicious
jiā
Top: drum (twig over a bean [here: image of a drum on a stand]), bottom: 'to add' (For getting power your mouth needs sth. to be 'added' [=to eat])
If a drum is added, it will be excellent.  
JLPT HSK 6
crippled, lame
qué
Outside: disease (An ice- -cold building 广 makes sick.), inside: to add , body
The disease that looks like "adding body/flesh" is to be: crippled.  
JLPT no HSK
(phonetic sound for Buddhist transliteration)
jiā
Left: movement , right: to add (For getting power your mouth needs sth. to be 'added' [= to eat])
In a movement of adding you use: jiā.  
JLPT no HSK
(phonetic for:) ga or gā
qié
Left: person , right: to add (For getting power your mouth needs sth. to be 'added' [= to eat])
The person adds a: 'ga' or 'gā'  
JLPT no HSK
eggplant
qié
Top: plant , bottom: to add (For getting power your mouth needs sth. to be 'added' [= to eat])
(There is still space in the garden) The plant, we should add is: the eggplant.  
JLPT no HSK
cangue (wooden collar as punishment)
jiā
Left: tree , right: to add (For getting power your mouth needs sth. to be 'added' [= to eat])
If 'wood' is added to you, then in form of a cangue.  

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