U+5C15 "尕" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5C15 "尕" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used primarily in northwestern dialects of Mandarin, particularly in regions like Gansu, Qinghai, and Xinjiang, where it functions as a diminutive suffix or an adjective meaning "small" or "little." It is often applied as a term of endearment in names or everyday speech, such as in "尕娃" (gǎ wá) for a young child, and is written with the radical for "small" (小) at the top and the component for "乃" (nǎi) at the bottom. This character is not commonly used in standard written Chinese but holds cultural significance in local vernacular and is recognized in the Unicode standard for encoding such distinct regional forms.