尕

尕 U+5C15, 尕 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5C15 ← 尔 [U+5C14] CJK Unified Ideographs 尖 → [U+5C16]

Translingual

Han character

尕 (radical 42, 小+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 弓尸火 (NSF), four-corner 1790₂, composition ⿱乃小)

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 297, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 562, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5C15

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		尕

Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 乃 (“breast; milk”) + 小 (“small”) – a suckling infant (small).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): gǎ (ga³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄚˇ

  (Dungan, Cyrillic): га (I)

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gaa¹
• Min Nan (Teochew, Peng'im): ga³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: gǎ
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄚˇ
    • Wade–Giles: ka³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gaa
    • IPA ^(key): /ka̠²¹⁴/
  • (Dungan)
    • Cyrillic: га (I)
    • IPA ^(key): /kaː²⁴/

    (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gaa¹
    • Yale: gā
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gaa¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ga¹
    • IPA ^(key): /kɑː⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ga³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kà
    • IPA ^(key): /ka²¹³/

Definitions

尕

1. (Central Plains Mandarin, Lanyin Mandarin) small
2. (Central Plains Mandarin) Prefix used before a name to indicate affection, similar to 小.

Compounds

• 依連哈比爾尕山／依连哈比尔尕山
• 克孜爾尕哈石窟／克孜尔尕哈石窟
• 吐爾尕特／吐尔尕特
• 喀拉尕什
• 尕巴

• 尕斯浩特
• 尕海
• 尕羊
• 斯尕

• 曼尕賴／曼尕赖
• 木尕拉
• 汗德尕特
• 牙什尕

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Vietnamese

Han character

尕: Hán Việt readings: ca

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References

• Nom Foundation