Chinese Character Wiki

呷

gā, xiā

suck

Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 甲 represents the sound.

Components
口 meaning component

口  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

甲 sound component

甲  Sound component

jiǎ

  

1st heavenly stem, fingernail

Evolution

呷 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
呷 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

呷  

gā

suck, swallow, drink

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4071st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+5477

Shuowen

“呷，吸呷也。从口，甲聲。”


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