咖
kā
#2,374 most
frequent character
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Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
咖 kā has 口 mouth as meaning part and 加 jiā as sound part. It first meant laughter's sound. In modern Mandarin it mostly writes sounds in loanwords; the gā reading also transcribes loanwords, borrowed for sound.
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