が

See also: か and か゚

が U+304C, が HIRAGANA LETTER GA Composition: か [U+304B] + ◌゙ [U+3099] ← か [U+304B] Hiragana き → [U+304D]

Japanese

Stroke order

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɡa̠]
• IPA^(key): [ŋa̠] (morpheme-medial alternative pronunciation)

Etymology 1

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

Syllable

が (romaji ga)

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

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

Etymology 2

From Proto-Japonic *-nka.

Particle

が (rōmaji ga)

1. Indicates the subject of a sentence.

   猫 (ねこ)が餌 (えさ)を食 (た)べた。

   Neko ga esa o tabeta.

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

   犬 (いぬ)がいる。

   Inu ga iru.

   There is a dog.

   木 (き)がある。

   Ki ga aru.

   There is a tree.

   • 2012, まらしぃ (lyrics), “空想少女への恋手紙”‎^[1] (in Japanese):

     宛先 (あてさき)が君 (きみ)のラブレターは　どこに出 (だ)せば届 (とど)くのかな

     atesaki ga kimi no rabu retā wa doko ni daseba todoku no ka na

     As for this love letter whose destination is you, where should I post it that it may reach you?

2. conjunction ("but")

   犬 (いぬ)は好 (す)きだが、猫 (ねこ)は嫌 (きら)いだ。

   Inu wa suki da ga, neko wa kirai da.

   I like dogs but I hate cats.

3. Historical possessive used to connect nouns, most often seen in place names as ヶ.

   我々 (われわれ)が心 (こころ)

   wareware ga kokoro

   our [collective] heart

   富 (ふ)士 (じ)見 (み)ヶ丘 (おか)

   Fujimigaoka

   Fuji View Hill

   関 (せき)ヶ原 (はら)

   Sekigahara

   Gateway Plains (site of the Battle of Sekigahara)

Alternative forms

• (historical possessive): ヶ (ga)

See also

• ぎゃ (gya)
• は (ha)

Adjectival noun

が (-na inflection, rōmaji ga)

1. 雅: elegant

Noun

が (rōmaji ga)

1. 我: ego
2. 画: picture
3. 賀: congratulation
4. 雅: elegance
5. 駕: vehicle; horse-drawn carriage
6. 蛾: moth

Etymology 4

For pronunciation and definitions of が – see the following entries.

【我】6 [noun]ego 【雅】S [adjective]elegant [noun]elegance

(This term, が, is the hiragana spelling of several Sino-Japanese terms.) For a list of all kanji with on'yomi が, not just those used in Sino-Japanese terms, see Category:Japanese kanji with on reading が.