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噶

gá

Character

What 噶 means

1. phonetic ga (used in rendering Tibetan and Mongolian sounds)
2. Tibetan Ge: language of Buddha
3. dialectfinal particle similar to {了|le} (esp. in Yunnan)

Example sentences

• 调查人员的结论基于对取自东非大裂谷坦噶尼喀湖底部的一块距今 6 万年的沉积物岩芯的分析。坦噶尼喀湖位于东非大裂谷，与蒲隆地、刚果民主共和国、坦尚尼亚和尚比亚接壤，是世界第二深的淡水湖。
  Investigators base their conclusion on an analysis of a 60,000-year-old sediment core extracted from the bottom Lake Tanganyika in the East African Rift Valley, which borders Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania and Zambia. The lake is the world's second deepest fresh water lake.

Words starting with 噶

• 噶伦gá lúnTibetan government official
• 噶喇gá lǎ(onomatopoeia); same as 噶拉
• 噶噶gá gá(onomatopoeia)
• 噶厦gá xiàgovernment of Tibet, dissolved in 1959
• 噶拉gá lā(onomatopoeia); same as 噶喇
• 噶隆gá lóngTibetan government official; same as 噶布伦
• 噶布伦gá bù lúnTibetan government official
• 噶尔县Gá ěr XiànGar, a county in Ngari Prefecture 阿里地区
• 噶玛兰Gá mǎ lánKavalan, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan; old name of Yilan 宜兰…
• 噶当派Gá dāng pàiBkar-dgam-pa sect of Tibetan Buddhism
• 噶举派Gá jǔ pàiGeju (Tibetan: transmit word of Buddha) sect of Tibetan Buddhist
• 噶哈巫族Gá hā wū zúKaxabu or Kahabu, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
• 噶玛兰族Gá mǎ lán zúKavalan, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
• 噶嗒gá dā(onomatopoeia) clattering
• 噶嘣gá bēng(onomatopoeia) kaboom
• 噶啷啷gá lāng lāng(onomatopoeia) hum and clatter
• 噶霏gá fēicoffee (loanword) (old)
• 噶拉·多杰·仁波切Gá lā · Duō jié · Rén bō qièGarab Dorje Rinpoche, succession of Buthanese religious leaders
• 噶尔Gá ěrsee 噶尔县

Words containing 噶

• 坦噶尼喀Tǎn gá ní kāTanganyika, sovereign state in Africa (1961–1964), later part of Tanzania
• 达噜噶齐dá lū gá qíMongolian daruqachi, local commander in Mongol and Yuan times
• 马噶尔尼Mǎ gá ěr níEarl George Macartney (1737-1806), leader of British mission to Qing China in 1793…
• 坦噶尼喀湖Tǎn gá ní kā HúLake Tanganyika in East Africa
• 准噶尔盆地Zhǔn gá ěr Pén dìJunggar Basin, northern Xinjiang
• 准噶尔翼龙Zhǔn gá ěr yì lóngDsungaripterus (genus of pterosaur)
• 萨噶达娃节Sà gá dá wá jiéTibetan festival on 15th April marking Sakyamuni's birthday
• 马噶尔尼使团Mǎ gá ěr ní shǐ tuánthe Macartney mission to Qing China in 1793
• 喀什噶尔Kā shí gá ěrKashgar or Qeshqer (Chinese Kashi) in the west of Xinjiang near Kyrgyzstan

Characters that look like 噶

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 嘴zuǐmouth; beak; nozzle
• 嘻xīlaugh; giggle; (interjection expressing admiration, surprise etc)
• 嘎gā(onomatopoeia) short but loud sound
• 噗pū(onomatopoeia) pop; plop; pfff
• 嘤yīngcalling of birds
• 嘬chuài(literary) to gnaw; to eat ravenously

Sounds the same

Read gá, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 轧to crush together (in a crowd); to make friends; to check (accounts)
• 嘎cackling sound
• 钆gadolinium (chemistry)
• 尜toy formed of a spindle with two sharp ends

Go deeper

• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read gá correctly.
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