Chinese symbol for “clattering”
噶嗒
gá dā
(onom.) clattering
The closest CC-CEDICT match for clattering is 噶嗒 (gá dā), defined as: (onom.) clattering.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 噶嗒.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 噶厦 (噶廈) | gá xià | government of Tibet, dissolved in 1959 |
| 噶伦 (噶倫) | gá lún | Tibetan government official |
| 噶啷啷 | gá lāng lāng | (onom.) hum and clatter |
| 噶喇 | gá lǎ | (onom.); same as 噶拉 (gá lā) |
| 噶嘣 | gá bēng | (onom.) kaboom |
| 嘀嗒 | dī dā | (onom.) tick tock |
| 吧嗒 | bā da | (onom.) patter, splatter, click; to smack one's lips |
| 咔嗒 | kā dā | (onom.) click |
See also: Japanese symbol for “clattering”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.