U+5496 "咖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
咖
U+5496 "咖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that is commonly used in modern Mandarin and Japanese, primarily as a phonetic component in loanwords, most notably in the word "咖啡" (kāfēi), meaning "coffee." It is composed of the radical 口 (mouth) on the left and the phonetic element 加 (jiā, meaning "add" or "plus") on the right, making it a phono-semantic compound character. In Japanese, it appears in words like 咖喱 (karē, meaning "curry"), though its use is less frequent than in Chinese. This character is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block and carries the semantic connotation of a sound or utterance related to consumption or foreign borrowed terms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5496 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 咖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 咖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x92 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5496 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005496 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5496 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A940 |
| kCCCII | 21356D |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4C42 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4C42 |
| kCangjie | RKSR |
| kCantonese | gaa3 |
| kCihaiT | 269.311 |
| kCowles | 1415 |
| kDefinition | coffee; a phonetic |
| kEACC | 21356D |
| kFourCornerCode | 6600.0 |
| kGB0 | 3107 |
| kGB1 | 3107 |
| kGradeLevel | 4 |
| kHangul | 가:1 |
| kHanYu | 10610.060 |
| kHanyuPinlu | kā(9) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10610.060:jiā,gā,kā |
| kHKGlyph | 0536 |
| kIICore | AGTHM |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10610.060 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0185.211 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3F27 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A940 |
| kIRG_JSource | J13-2E7D |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-396B |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-5723 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4C42 |
| kJapanese | カ |
| kTGH | 2013:1104 |
| kJIS0213 | 1,14,93 |
| kJapaneseOn | KA |
| kJis1 | 2109 |
| kKangXi | 0185.211 |
| kKorean | KA |
| kLau | 784 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0739 |
| kMandarin | kā |
| kMatthews | 582 |
| kMeyerWempe | 929 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008210 |
| kMorohashi | 03523 |
| kPhonetic | 532 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+14381+30.3.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.5 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 98.06 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | gā粵gaa3 kā粵gaa3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 9735 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 104.040:gā 191.020:kā |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kXerox | 260:127 |
| kXHC1983 | 0349.060:gā 0625.040:kā |