喀

喀 U+5580, 喀 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5580 ← 啿 [U+557F] CJK Unified Ideographs 喁 → [U+5581]

Translingual

Han character

喀 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口十竹口 (RJHR), four-corner 6306₄, composition ⿰口客)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 197, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3896
• Dae Jaweon: page 418, character 31
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 662, character 6
• Unihan data for U+5580

Chinese

simp. and trad.		喀

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (各) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
髂	*kʰraːɡs
路	*ɡ·raːɡs
輅	*ɡ·raːɡs
賂	*ɡ·raːɡs
虂	*ɡ·raːɡs
露	*ɡ·raːɡs
潞	*raːɡs
鷺	*raːɡs
璐	*raːɡs
簬	*raːɡs
簵	*ɡ·raːɡs
洛	*ɡ·raːɡ
駱	*ɡ·raːɡ
絡	*ɡ·raːɡ
酪	*ɡ·raːɡ
烙	*ɡ·raːɡ
雒	*ɡ·raːɡ
珞	*ɡ·raːɡ
硌	*ɡ·raːɡ
袼	*ɡ·raːɡ, *klaːɡ
笿	*ɡ·raːɡ
鉻	*ɡ·raːɡ, *kraːɡ
鮥	*ɡ·raːɡ
鵅	*ɡ·raːɡ, *kraːɡ
挌	*ɡ·raːɡ, *kraːɡ
落	*ɡ·raːɡ
各	*klaːɡ
胳	*klaːɡ
閣	*klaːɡ
格	*klaːɡ, *kraːɡ
擱	*klaːɡ
恪	*kʰlaːɡ
愙	*kʰaːɡ
貉	*ɡlaːɡ, *mɡraːɡ
狢	*ɡlaːɡ
佫	*ɡlaːɡ
略	*ɡ·raɡ
茖	*kraːɡ
骼	*kraːɡ
觡	*kraːɡ
蛒	*kraːɡ
敋	*kraːɡ
客	*kʰraːɡ
喀	*kʰraːɡ
揢	*kʰraːɡ
額	*ŋɡraːɡ
峉	*ŋɡraːɡ
頟	*ŋɡraːɡ
詻	*ŋɡraːɡ
垎	*ɡraːɡ
楁	*ɡraːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kʰraːɡ) : semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 客 (OC *kʰraːɡ).

Etymology

Onomatopoeic; compare English hack.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kā, kà, kè (ka¹, ka⁴, ke⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄚ, ㄎㄚˋ, ㄎㄜˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): haak³, kaa¹, haak¹, kaa³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland and Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kā
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ka
    • Wade–Giles: kʻa¹
    • Yale: kā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ka
    • Palladius: ка (ka)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰä⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kà
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄚˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kà
    • Wade–Giles: kʻa⁴
    • Yale: kà
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kah
    • Palladius: ка (ka)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰä⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kè
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄜˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kè
    • Wade–Giles: kʻo⁴
    • Yale: kè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: keh
    • Palladius: кэ (kɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɤ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: haak³, kaa¹, haak¹, kaa³
    • Yale: haak, kā, hāak, ka
    • Cantonese Pinyin: haak⁸, kaa¹, haak⁷, kaa³
    • Guangdong Romanization: hag³, ka¹, hag¹, ka³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /haːk̚³/, /kʰaː⁵⁵/, /haːk̚⁵/, /kʰaː³³/

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• Middle Chinese: khaek

Rime
Character	喀
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	庚 (113)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	苦格切
Baxter	khaek
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰˠæk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰᵚak̚/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰak̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰaɨjk̚/
Li Rong	/kʰɐk̚/
Wang Li	/kʰɐk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/kʰɐk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	ke
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hak1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰraːɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	喀
Reading #	1/1
No.	3904
Phonetic component	各
Rime group	鐸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	客
Old Chinese	/*kʰraːɡ/

Definitions

喀

1. (onomatopoeia) noise made in coughing or vomiting
2. Used in transliterations.

Compounds

• 哈尼喀塔木 (Hāníkātǎmù)
• 喀什
• 喀什噶爾／喀什噶尔
• 喀什米爾／喀什米尔 (Kàshímǐ'ěr)
• 喀勒塔吐格曼 (Kālètǎtùgémàn)
• 喀喀
• 喀喇崑崙／喀喇昆仑
• 喀嚓 (kāchā)
• 喀布爾／喀布尔
• 喀布爾河／喀布尔河
• 喀拉克爾／喀拉克尔 (Kālākè'ěr)
• 喀拉喀什 (Kālākāshí)
• 喀拉蚩 (Kālāchī)
• 喀爾曲尕／喀尔曲尕 (Kā'ěrqūgǎ)
• 喀瓦克 (Kāwǎkè)
• 喀血
• 喀麥隆／喀麦隆 (Kāmàilóng)
• 嘁哩喀喳
• 宗喀巴 (Zōngkābā)
• 布喀河
• 布喀達坂峰／布喀达坂峰 (Bùkādábǎn Fēng)
• 布那喀
• 廓爾喀人／廓尔喀人
• 拉依喀
• 日喀則／日喀则
• 波斯喀木 (Bōsīkāmù)
• 玉龍喀什／玉龙喀什 (Yùlóngkāshí)
• 空喀
• 達喀爾／达喀尔 (Dákā'ěr)

 

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A00621
• “喀”, 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–

Japanese

Kanji

喀

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): かく (kaku)
• Kun: はく (haku, 喀く)

Korean

Hanja

喀 • (gaek) (hangeul 객, revised gaek, McCune–Reischauer kaek, Yale kayk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

喀: Hán Nôm readings: khách, ca

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