U+560E "嘎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
嘎
U+560E "嘎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in both Mandarin and other East Asian languages, typically pronounced as "gá" or "shà" in Mandarin. It represents a sharp, loud, or creaking sound, often imitative in nature, such as the cry of a duck or the screech of a brake, and can also mean to break or snap with a cracking noise. In context, it appears in everyday vocabulary like "嘎吱" for a creaking sound or "嘎然而止" meaning to abruptly stop, reflecting its onomatopoeic utility across diverse lexical fields in written Chinese.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+560E |
| 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 | 嘎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 嘎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x98 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x560E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000560E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u560e |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B9C7 |
| kCCCII | 21372F |
| kCNS1986 | 1-682F |
| kCNS1992 | 1-682F |
| kCangjie | RMUI |
| kCantonese | gaat3 |
| kCihaiT | 290.109 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0428.090 |
| kDefinition | sound of laughter; bad, malevolent |
| kEACC | 21372F |
| kFanqie | 古黠 |
| kFenn | 331G |
| kFennIndex | 42.13 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6105.3 |
| kGB0 | 2434 |
| kGB1 | 2434 |
| kHangul | 알:1N |
| kHanYu | 10675.060 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10675.060:gā,gá,gǎ |
| kIICore | AGTM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0428.090 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10675.060 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0205.150 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3842 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B9C7 |
| kIRG_JSource | J13-2F31 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-3A9A |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-663C |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-682F |
| kJapanese | カツ ケチ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:5699 |
| kJIS0213 | 1,15,17 |
| kJapaneseOn | KATSU KECHI |
| kJis1 | 2214 |
| kKangXi | 0205.150 |
| kKorean | AL |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0867 |
| kMandarin | gā |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008589 |
| kMorohashi | 04184 |
| kPhonetic | 552 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+14397+30.3.11 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.11 |
| kSBGY | 489.19 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 115.18 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | gā粵gaat3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0867 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 104.060:gā 104.090:gá 104.120:gǎ |
| kTotalStrokes | 14 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kXerox | 277:253 |
| kXHC1983 | 0349.020:gā 0349.100:gá 0349.130:gǎ |