旮 (gā): used in 旮旯 (a nook; an out-of-t…

Meanings

1 used in 旮旯 (a nook; an out-of-the-way corner)

Characters

旮

gā

nook (in 旮旯)

Examples

我找遍了每个旮旯也没找到。

Wǒ zhǎo biàn le měi gè gālá yě méi zhǎodào.

I searched every nook and cranny but still couldn't find it.

Tips

history

旮 is not used independently in modern Chinese — it occurs only in the colloquial binome 旮旯 ('a nook / corner', often 旮旯儿 in Beijing speech), paired with 旯.

memory

旮 has the sun 日 under 九; its partner 旯 has 九 under 日 — a tidy mirror pair for the word 'nook'.

Components

radical

日 rì

sun

日 the sun radical is the indexing radical. It does not contribute meaning here — the character exists only to write the corner-word 旮旯.

phonetic

九 jiǔ

nine

九 sits on top and provides a loose phonetic hint for gā; it carries no numeric meaning in this character.

Stroke Order

旮 gā

Related Words

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to be eliminated; to be out / to be knocked out (of a competition)

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to draw out / to pull out / to smoke (cigarettes) / to extract

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to go out to sea; to put out to sea / to go overseas (for business expansion)

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through and through / from beginning to end / out-and-out; thoroughly

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to bail out / to post bail for