咔

咔 U+5494, 咔 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5494 ← 咓 [U+5493] CJK Unified Ideographs 咕 → [U+5495]

Translingual

Han character

咔 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 口卜一卜 (RYMY), four-corner 6103, composition ⿰口卡)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 185, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3517
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 599, character 14
• Unihan data for U+5494

Chinese

simp. and trad.		咔

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kǎ, kā (ka³, ka¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄚˇ, ㄎㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kaa⁴, kaa¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kǎ
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄚˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kǎ
    • Wade–Giles: kʻa³
    • Yale: kǎ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kaa
    • Palladius: ка (ka)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰä²¹⁴/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kā
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ka
    • Wade–Giles: kʻa¹
    • Yale: kā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ka
    • Palladius: ка (ka)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰä⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: kaa⁴, kaa¹
    • Yale: kàh, kā
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kaa⁴, kaa¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ka⁴, ka¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰaː²¹/, /kʰaː⁵⁵/

Definitions

咔

1. Used in onomatopoeia and transcriptions.

Compounds

• 咔唑 (kǎzuò)
• 咔啉 (kǎlín)
• 咔嘰／咔叽 (kǎjī)
• 咔嚓
• 咔戲／咔戏 (kǎxì)

 

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 咔 – see 哢 (“to sing, chirp”). (This character is a variant form of 哢).

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B00331

Japanese

Kanji

咔

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Kan’yō-on: か (ka)