噶

噶 U+5676, 噶 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5676 ← 噵 [U+5675] CJK Unified Ideographs 噷 → [U+5677]

Translingual

Han character

噶 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 口廿日女 (RTAV), four-corner 6402₇, composition ⿰口葛)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 211, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4426
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 681, character 8
• Unihan data for U+5676

Chinese

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 葛. For etymology 2, it is based on gé, the Mandarin pinyin transcription of 葛.

Etymology 1

trad.		噶
simp. #		噶

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gá, gé (ga², ge²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄚˊ, ㄍㄜˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gaa¹ / got³
• Wu (Northern, Wugniu): ⁷keq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gá
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄚˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gá
    • Wade–Giles: ka²
    • Yale: gá
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gar
    • Palladius: га (ga)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kä³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gé
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄜˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gé
    • Wade–Giles: ko²
    • Yale: gé
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ger
    • Palladius: гэ (gɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɤ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gaa¹ / got³
    • Yale: gā / got
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gaa¹ / got⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: ga¹ / god³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kaː⁵⁵/, /kɔːt̚³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai, Suzhou)
    • Wugniu: ⁷keq
    • MiniDict: keh^入
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁴keq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /kəʔ⁵⁵/
    • Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /kəʔ⁴³/

Definitions

噶

1. used in transcriptions

Compounds

• 吐噶喇列島／吐噶喇列岛 (Tùgálǎ Lièdǎo)
• 喀什噶爾／喀什噶尔
• 噶倫／噶伦 (gálún)
• 噶倫堡／噶伦堡 (Gálúnbǎo)
• 噶個點兒／噶个点儿
• 噶大克
• 噶廈／噶厦
• 噶爾／噶尔 (Gá'ěr)
• 噶爾丹／噶尔丹
• 噶瑪蘭／噶玛兰 (Gámǎlán)
• 噶當派／噶当派 (Gádāngpài)
• 噶舉派／噶举派 (Gájǔpài)
• 坦噶尼喀 (Tǎngáníkā)
• 準噶爾／准噶尔

 

Etymology 2

Ultimately from 個／个 (gè).

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ge³
• Wu (Northern, Wugniu): ⁷keq

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ge³
    • Yale: ge
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ge³
    • Guangdong Romanization: gé³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɛː³³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai, Suzhou)
    • Wugniu: ⁷keq
    • MiniDict: keh^入
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁴keq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /kəʔ⁵⁵/
    • Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /kəʔ⁴³/

Definitions

噶

1. (Cantonese, chiefly Mainland China) Alternative form of 嘅 (ge3) (grammatical and sentence final particle).
2. (Northern Wu, including Suzhounese) Alternative form of 個／个 (possessive particle)
3. (Shanghainese) then; in that case

Synonyms

(then):

• 噶末
• (Standard) 那麼／那么 (nàme)
• (Cantonese) 噉 (gam2)
• (Hokkien) 按呢 (án-ne, án-ni)

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): got⁴ / goet⁴

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: got⁴ / goet⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɔːt̚²¹/, /kœːt̚²¹/

Definitions

噶

1. (Cantonese, onomatopoeia) sound of snoring

   瞓到噶噶聲／𰥛到噶噶声 [Cantonese]  ―  fan³ dou³ got⁴ got^4-2 seng¹ [Jyutping]  ―  to snore loudly while sleeping

2. (Cantonese, onomatopoeia) sound of a pig

Japanese

Kanji

噶

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. used in transliterations

Readings

• On (unclassified): かつ (katsu); かち (kachi); が (ga)

Korean

Hanja

噶 • (gal) (hangeul 갈, revised gal, McCune–Reischauer kal)

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Vietnamese

Han character

噶: Hán Nôm readings: cát, gắt

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