咖

咖	U+5496, 咖 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5496

← 咕
[U+5495]

CJK Unified Ideographs

咗 →
[U+5497]

Translingual

Han character

咖 (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: volume 1, page 610, character 6

Unihan data for U+5496

Chinese

simp. and trad.		咖

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): kā (ka¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄎㄚ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gaa³
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): kâ
Min Dong (BUC): gă
Min Nan (POJ): ka / ko
Wu (Wiktionary): kha (T1)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: kā
  - Zhuyin: ㄎㄚ
  - Wade–Giles: k'a¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ka
  - IPA ^(key): /kʰä⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: gaa³
  - Yale: ga
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gaa³
  - Guangdong Romanization: ga³
  - IPA ^(key): /käː³³/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kâ
  - Hakka Romanization System: ga´
  - Hagfa Pinyim: ga¹
  - IPA: /ka²⁴/
Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: gă
  - 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.

Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: kha (T1)
  - IPA ^(key): /kʰa̱⁵³/

Definitions

咖

Only used in 咖啡 (kāfēi).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): gā, kā (ga¹, ka¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄍㄚ, ㄎㄚ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gaa³
Min Nan (POJ): ka
Wu (Wiktionary): ka (T1)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: gā
  - Zhuyin: ㄍㄚ
  - Wade–Giles: ka¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ga
  - IPA ^(key): /kä⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
  - Pinyin: kā
  - Zhuyin: ㄎㄚ
  - Wade–Giles: k'a¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ka
  - IPA ^(key): /kʰä⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: gaa³
  - Yale: ga
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gaa³
  - Guangdong Romanization: ga³
  - 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)
  - IPA ^(key): /ka̱⁵³/

Definitions

咖

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

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: kā
  - Zhuyin: ㄎㄚ
  - Wade–Giles: k'a¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ka
  - IPA ^(key): /kʰä⁵⁵/

Definitions

咖

character; role (clarification of this definition is needed)

Compounds

大咖 (dàkā)

小咖 (xiǎokā)

怪咖 (guàikā)

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): kā (ka¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄎㄚ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: kā
  - Zhuyin: ㄎㄚ
  - Wade–Giles: k'a¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ka
  - IPA ^(key): /kʰä⁵⁵/

Definitions

咖

Only used in 咖咖.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): jiā (jia¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄚ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: jiā
  - Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄚ
  - Wade–Giles: chia¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jia
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ä⁵⁵/

Definitions

咖

The meaning of this term is uncertain.

Japanese

Kanji

咖

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): か (ka)

Korean

Hanja

咖 • (ga) (hangeul 가, McCune–Reischauer ka)

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