噶

gá
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 phonetic 'ga' (a transliteration syllable for Tibetan and Mongolian names)

Examples

HSK 6
Gálún shì jiù Xīzàng dìfāng zhèngfǔ de zhǔyào guānyuán.
A Kalon was a chief minister of the old Tibetan local government.
HSK 7-9
Gájǔpài shì Zàngchuán Fójiào de yí ge zhòngyào jiàopài.
The Kagyu school is an important school of Tibetan Buddhism.

Tips

usage
噶 is a sound-only character used to spell Tibetan and Mongolian words, as in 噶伦 (a Tibetan minister) and 噶厦 (the old Tibetan cabinet). It has no meaning of its own.

Components

radical
口 kǒu
mouth
口 is the mouth radical. As with many transliteration characters, the mouth radical flags 噶 as a sound to be pronounced rather than a word with meaning.
phonetic
葛 gé
kudzu vine; phonetic element
葛 supplies the sound, here said as gá. Its own meaning, the kudzu plant, plays no part; it is purely the phonetic under the mouth radical.

Stroke Order

噶 gá