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戛

gā

Character

What 戛 means

1. used in {戛纳|Gā nà}

Other readings

戛 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• jiálance; to tap; to scrape
• jiávariant of {戛|jiá}

Words starting with 戛

• 戛然而止jiá rán ér zhǐwith a grunting sound it stops (idiom); to come to an end spontaneously (esp. of sound)
• 戛戛jiá jiádifficult; challenging; original
• 戛然jiá rán(literary) to stop abruptly (of a sound); to be loud and clear
• 戛纳Gā nàCannes (France)
• 戛戛独造jiá jiá dú zàocreative; original

Words containing 戛

• 马戛尔尼Mǎ jiá ěr níEarl George Macartney (1737-1806), leader of British mission to Qing China in 1793…
• 马戛尔尼使团Mǎ jiá ěr ní shǐ tuánthe Macartney mission to Qing China in 1793

Characters that look like 戛

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

• 累lèitired; weary; to strain
• 晨chénmorning; dawn; daybreak
• 葛gékudzu (Pueraria lobata); hemp cloth
• 巢cháonest
• 羡xiànto envy
• 笺jiānletter; note-paper

Sounds the same

Read gā, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 嘎(onomatopoeia) short but loud sound
• 咖used in 咖喱
• 夹used in 夹肢窝
• 伽used in the transliteration of Greek letters
• 呷used in 呷呷
• 胳used in 胳肢窝
• 旮used in 旮旯