咖

咖 U+5496, 咖 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5496 ← 咕 [U+5495] CJK Unified Ideographs 咗 → [U+5497]

Translingual

Han character

咖 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 口大尸口 (RKSR), four-corner 6600₀, composition ⿰口加)

Derived characters

• 𨔗

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 185, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3523
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 610, character 6
• Unihan data for U+5496

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		咖

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 加 (OC *kraːl).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kā (ka¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gaa³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): kâ
• Min Dong (BUC): gă
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): ka / ko

  (Teochew, Peng'im): gia¹

• Wu (Wiktionary): kha (T1)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: kā
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄚ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ka
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ka
    • Wade–Giles: kʻa1
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰä⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gaa³
    • Yale: ga
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gaa³
    • Guangdong Romanization: ga³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /käː³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kâ
    • Hakka Romanization System: ga´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ga¹
    • Sinological IPA: /ka²⁴/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: gă
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ka⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ka
    • Tâi-lô: ka
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kaf
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /ka⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ka³³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ko
    • Tâi-lô: ko
    • Phofsit Daibuun: koy
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ko³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /ko⁴⁴/

Note:

• ka - literary;
• ko - vernacular.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: gia¹
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kia
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kia³³/

Wu

• (Shanghainese)
  • Wiktionary: kha (T1)
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰa̱⁵³/

Definitions

咖

1. Only used in 咖啡 (kāfēi); also used as its short form.

Compounds

• 冰咖
• 咖色

• 咖農／咖农
• 奶咖

• 網咖／网咖 (wǎngkā)
• 苦咖

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gā, kā (ga¹, ka¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄚ, ㄎㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gaa³
• Min Nan (POJ): ka
• Wu (Wiktionary): ka (T1)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: gā
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄚ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ga
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ga
    • Wade–Giles: ka1
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kä⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Pinyin: kā
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄚ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ka
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ka
    • Wade–Giles: kʻa1
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰä⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gaa³
    • Yale: ga
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gaa³
    • Guangdong Romanization: ga³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /käː³³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ka
    • Tâi-lô: ka
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kaf
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ka⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ka³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ka⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ka⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ka⁴⁴/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: ka (T1)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ka̱⁵³/

Definitions

咖

1. Only used in 咖喱 (gālí) and 咖哩 (kālǐ).

Etymology 3

From Min Nan 跤 (kha), shortened from 跤數／跤数 (kha-siàu, “character; guy”), probably with influence from Mandarin 腳色／脚色 (juésè, “character”).

Alternatively, from English cast.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kā (ka¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄚ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: kā
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄚ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ka
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ka
    • Wade–Giles: kʻa1
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰä⁵⁵/

Definitions

咖

1. character; role (clarification of this definition is needed)

Compounds

• 大咖 (dàkā)

• 小咖 (xiǎokā)

• 怪咖 (guàikā)

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kā (ka¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄚ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: kā
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄚ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ka
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ka
    • Wade–Giles: kʻa1
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰä⁵⁵/

Definitions

咖

1. Only used in 咖咖.

Etymology 5

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiā (jia¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄚ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: jiā
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄚ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jia
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jia
    • Wade–Giles: chia1
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕjä⁵⁵/

Definitions

咖

1. The meaning of this term is uncertain.

References

• “咖”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

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Japanese

Kanji

咖

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: け (ke)
• Kan-on: か (ka)

Compounds

• 咖(カ)哩(レー) (karē, “curry”)

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Korean

Hanja

咖 (eum 가 (ga))

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