ka (kana)
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{{Infobox kana
| Hiragana image = Japanese Hiragana kyokashotai KA.svg
| Katakana image = Japanese Katakana kyokashotai KA.svg
| Transliteration = ka
| Transliteration Dakuten = ga
| Transliteration Handakuten = (nga)
| Hiragana Manyogana = 加
| Katakana Manyogana = 加
| Other Manyogana = 可 何 加 架 香 蚊 迦
| Dakuten Manyogana = 我 何 賀
| Spelling = 為替のカ
(Kawase no "ka")
}}
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Ka (hiragana: か, katakana: カ) is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. Both represent {{IPA|[ka]}}. The shapes of these kana both originate from 加.
The character can be combined with a dakuten, to form が in hiragana, ガ in katakana and ga in Hepburn romanization. The phonetic value of the modified character is {{IPA|[ɡa]}} in initial positions and varying between {{IPA|[ŋa]}} and {{IPA|[ɣa]}} in the middle of words.
A handakuten (゜) does not occur with ka in normal Japanese text, but it may be used by linguists to indicate a nasal pronunciation {{IPA|[ŋa]}}.
か is the most commonly used interrogatory particle. It is also sometimes used to delimit choices.
が is a Japanese case marker, as well as a conjunctive particle. It is used to denote the focus of attention in a sentence, especially to the grammatical subject.
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!Form |
| rowspan="2"|Normal k- (か行 ka-gyō) |ka |か |カ |
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| kaa kā |かあ, かぁ |カア, カァ |
| rowspan="2"|Addition of dakuten g- (が行 ga-gyō) |ga |が |ガ |
| gaa gā |があ, がぁ |ガア, ガァ |
Stroke order
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| File:Hiragana か stroke order animation.gif |
The Hiragana か is made with three strokes:
- A horizontal line which turns and ends in a hook facing left.
- A curved vertical line that cuts through the first line.
- A small curved line on the right.
The Katakana カ is made with two strokes:
- A horizontal line which turns and ends in a hook facing left.
- A curved vertical line that cuts through the first line.
Other communicative representations
{{Letter reps|lang=Japanese|radio={{lang|ja|為替のカ}}|radio_trans=Kawase no "Ka"|morse=・－・・ |morse_sound=L morse code.ogg|flag_img=ICS Lima.svg|sign_img=Ka-jsl-yubimoji.png|sem1=Japanese Semaphore Basic Stroke 8.svg|sem2=Japanese Semaphore Basic Stroke 3.svg|braille_img=Japanese Ka Braille.svg|braille=⠡}}
= Braille representation =
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| colspan=4| か / カ in Japanese Braille ||colspan=4| Other kana based on Braille か | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| か / カ ka | が / ガ ga | かあ / カー kā | があ / ガー gā | きゃ / キャ kya | ぎゃ / ギャ gya | きゃあ / キャー kyā | ぎゃあ / ギャー gyā |
| {{Braille cell|type=image|size=30px|16}} | {{Braille cell|type=image|size=30px|5|16}} | {{Braille cell|type=image|size=30px|16|25}} | {{Braille cell|type=image|size=30px|5|16|25}} | {{Braille cell|type=image|size=30px|4|16}} | {{Braille cell|type=image|size=30px|45|16}} | {{Braille cell|type=image|size=30px|4|16|25}} | {{Braille cell|type=image|size=30px|45|16|25}} |
= [[Character encoding|Computer encodings]] =
{{charmap
|304B|name1=Hiragana Letter Ka
|30AB|name2=Katakana Letter Ka
|FF76|name3=Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ka
|3095|name4=Hiragana Letter Small Ka
|30F5|name5=Katakana Letter Small Ka
|map1=Shift JIS (plain){{cite web |url=https://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/OBSOLETE/EASTASIA/JIS/SHIFTJIS.TXT |title=Shift-JIS to Unicode |author=Unicode Consortium |author-link=Unicode Consortium |date=2015-12-02 |orig-year=1994-03-08}}|map1char1=82 A9|map1char2=83 4A|map1char3=B6|map1char5=83 95
|map2=Shift JIS-2004{{cite web |url=http://x0213.org/codetable/sjis-0213-2004-std.txt |title=Shift_JIS-2004 (JIS X 0213:2004 Appendix 1) vs Unicode mapping table |date=2009-05-03 |author=Project X0213}}|map2char1=82 A9|map2char2=83 4A|map2char3=B6|map2char4=82 F3|map2char5=83 95
|map3=EUC-JP (plain){{cite web |url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/unicode-org/icu/master/icu4c/source/data/mappings/euc-jp-2007.ucm |title=EUC-JP-2007 |author1=Unicode Consortium |author-link1=Unicode Consortium |author2=IBM |author-link2=IBM |work=International Components for Unicode}}|map3char1=A4 AB|map3char2=A5 AB|map3char3=8E B6|map3char5=A5 F5
|map4=EUC-JIS-2004{{cite web |url=http://x0213.org/codetable/euc-jis-2004-std.txt |title=EUC-JIS-2004 (JIS X 0213:2004 Appendix 3) vs Unicode mapping table |date=2009-05-03 |author=Project X0213}}|map4char1=A4 AB|map4char2=A5 AB|map4char3=8E B6|map4char4=A4 F5|map4char5=A5 F5
|map5=GB 18030{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/GB18030-2005|title=GB 18030-2005: Information Technology—Chinese coded character set|last=Standardization Administration of China (SAC)|date=2005-11-18}}|map5char1=A4 AB|map5char2=A5 AB|map5char3=84 31 97 38|map5char4=81 39 A6 37|map5char5=A5 F5
|map6=EUC-KR{{cite web |url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/unicode-org/icu/master/icu4c/source/data/mappings/ibm-970_P110_P110-2006_U2.ucm |title=IBM-970 |author1=Unicode Consortium |author-link1=Unicode Consortium |author2=IBM |author-link2=IBM |work=International Components for Unicode}} / UHC{{cite web |url=https://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS/CP949.TXT |title=cp949 to Unicode table |last=Steele |first=Shawn |publisher=Microsoft / Unicode Consortium |date=2000}}|map6char1=AA AB|map6char2=AB AB|map6char5=AB F5
|map7=Big5 (non-ETEN kana){{cite web |url=https://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/OBSOLETE/EASTASIA/OTHER/BIG5.TXT |title=BIG5 to Unicode table (complete) |author=Unicode Consortium |author-link=Unicode Consortium |date=2015-12-02 |orig-year=1994-02-11}}|map7char1=C6 AF|map7char2=C7 43|map7char5=C7 AF
|map8=Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS){{cite web |url=https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/big5.html |title=big5 |work=Encoding Standard |publisher=WHATWG |last=van Kesteren |first=Anne |author-link=Anne van Kesteren}}|map8char1=C6 F1|map8char2=C7 A7|map8char5=C7 F1
|Info=yes
}}
{{charmap
|304C|name1=Hiragana Letter Ga
|30AC|name2=Katakana Letter Ga
|304B 309A|name3=Hiragana Letter Bidakuon Nga{{cite web |url=https://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/NamedSequences.txt |title=Unicode Named Character Sequences |work=Unicode Character Database |author=Unicode Consortium |author-link=Unicode Consortium}}
|30AB 309A|name4=Katakana Letter Bidakuon Nga
|32D5|name5=Circled Katakana Ka
|map1=Shift JIS (plain)|map1char1=82 AA|map1char2=83 4B
|map2=Shift JIS-2004|map2char1=82 AA|map2char2=83 4B|map2char3=82 F5|map2char4=83 97
|map3=EUC-JP (plain)|map3char1=A4 AC|map3char2=A5 AC
|map4=EUC-JIS-2004|map4char1=A4 AC|map4char2=A5 AC|map4char3=A4 F7|map4char4=A5 F7
|map5=GB 18030|map5char1=A4 AC|map5char2=A5 AC|map5char5=81 39 D2 31
|map6=EUC-KR / UHC|map6char1=AA AC|map6char2=AB AC
|map7=Big5 (non-ETEN kana)|map7char1=C6 B0|map7char2=C7 44
|map8=Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)|map8char1=C6 F2|map8char2=C7 A8
|Info=yes|Info3=no|Info4=no
}}
References
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See also
{{Wiktionary|か|が|カ|ガ|ゕ|ヵ}}
{{Commons category|か}}
{{Commons category|カ}}
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