が

Character	が
Unicode name	HIRAGANA LETTER GA
Codepoint	U+304C

Japanese

Stroke order

Etymology

The hiragana character か (ka) with a dakuten (゛).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɡä]

Syllable

が (Hepburn romanization ga)

1. The hiragana syllable が (ga), whose equivalent in katakana is ガ (ga).

Related terms

• For a list of words starting with が (ga), see: Special:Allpages/が

See also

• (Hiragana) 平仮名; あぁ, いぃ, うぅゔ, えぇ, おぉ, かゕが, きぎ, くぐ, けゖげ, こご, さざ, しじ, すず, せぜ, そぞ, ただ, ちぢ, つっづ, てで, とど, な, に, ぬ, ね, の, はばぱ, ひびぴ, ふぶぷ, へべぺ, ほぼぽ, ま, み, む, め, も, やゃ, ゆゅ, よょ, ら, り, る, れ, ろ, わゎ, ゐ, ゑ, を, ん, ー, ゝ, ゞ, ゟ

Particle

が (romaji ga)

1. が: Indicates the subject of a sentence.
   • 猫が餌を食べた。

     ねこがえさをたべた。

     Neko ga esa o tabeta.

     The cat [is the thing that] ate the cat food.

2. が: conjunction ("but")
   • 犬は好きだが、猫は嫌いだ。

     いぬはすきだが、ねこはきらいだ。

     Inu wa suki da ga, neko wa kirai da.

     I like dogs but I hate cats.

3. が or ヶ: Historical possessive used to connect nouns, most often seen in place names as ヶ.
   • 我々が心

     われわれがこころ

     wareware ga kokoro

     our [collective] heart

   • 富士見ヶ丘

     ふじみがおか

     Fujimi ga Oka

     Fuji View Hill

   • 関ヶ原

     せきがはら

     Seki ga hara

     Gateway Plains (site of the Battle of Sekigahara)

See also

• ぎゃ (gya)
• は
• 気がある (きがある, ki ga aru)

Noun

が (romaji ga)

1. 蛾: moth

See also

• 蝶々 (ちょうちょ, chōcho)
• 蝶 (ちょう, chō)
• 毛虫 (kemushi)

Kanji reading

が (romaji ga)

On-reading of:

• 我: ego