U+5496 "咖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
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
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
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
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
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
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