咖 Definitions — Dong Chinese Dictionary

kāgā HSK3

coffee

咖 kā frequency

class noun: rank, grade, or level, often referring to a person's status or importance; 你看他那副样子，真是好大一个咖。

nǐ kàn tā nà fù yàngzi, zhēn shì hǎo dà yī gè kā.

Look at him; he really thinks he's a big shot.

coffee noun: used in transliterations, primarily for coffee; 他在忙碌的工作间隙喝了一杯热咖啡提神。

tā zài mánglù de gōngzuò jiànxì hē le yī bēi rè kāfēi tíshén.

He had a cup of hot coffee to refresh himself during a break in his busy work schedule.

咖 gā

curry noun: used in 咖喱 gālí (curry); 这道牛肉咖喱的味道非常正宗，大家都爱吃。

zhè dào niúròu gālí de wèidao fēicháng zhèngzōng, dàjiā dōu ài chī.

This beef curry tastes very authentic, and everyone loves it.

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Frequency

Character

Written text: 2,379th most common 22.6 per million
Movie subtitles: 964th most common 112.1 per million appears in 35% of films

Word

Movie subtitles: 1.85 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text: 7.52 per million

Details

HSK 2.0: Level 2
HSK 3.0: Level 3
Strokes: 8
Unicode: U+5496

Sources

Definitions: CC-CEDICT
Frequency data: MTSU Chinese text computing SUBTLEX-CH BCC Corpus (BLCU)