used in transliterations

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

葛 sound component

  Sound component

  

edible bean

Definitions

 

used in transliterations; phonetic ga (used in rendering Tibetan and Mongolian sounds); Tibetan Ge: language of Buddha; (dialect) final particle similar to [le] (esp. in Yunnan)

Most common words with 噶
Freq.
Word
Meaning

噶玛兰

old name of Yilan 宜蘭|宜兰 county, Taiwan

Tibetan Ge: language of Buddha

准噶尔

Dzungar, Junggar or Dsungharian basin in Xinjiang

噶尔

Gar county in Ngari prefecture, Tibet, Tibetan: Sgar rdzong

坦噶尼喀

Tanganyika on continent of West Africa, one component of Tanzania