咖

咖 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 口大尸口 (RKSR), four-corner 6600₀, composition ⿰口加)

• 𨔗

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 185, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3523
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 610, character 6
• Unihan data for U+5496

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 加 (OC *kraːl).

咖

1. Only used in 咖啡 (kāfēi); also used as its short form.

咖

1. Only used in 咖喱 (gālí) and 咖哩 (kālǐ).

From Hokkien 跤 (kha), shortened from 跤數／跤数 (kha-siàu, “character; guy”), probably with influence from Mandarin 腳色／脚色 (juésè, “character”).

Alternatively, from English cast.

咖

1. (chiefly Taiwan, slang) character; role (clarification of this definition is needed)

咖

1. Only used in 咖咖.

咖

1. The meaning of this term is uncertain.

• “咖”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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• Go-on: け (ke)
• Kan-on: か (ka)

• 咖(カ)哩(レー) (karē, “curry”)

咖 (eum 가 (ga))

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