Chinese symbol for “quack”
嘎嘎
gā gā
(onom.) quack; honk; (northern dialect) very; also pr. [ga1 ga5], [ga2 ga5] etc
The closest CC-CEDICT match for quack is 嘎嘎 (gā gā), defined as: (onom.) quack; honk; (northern dialect) very; also pr. [ga1 ga5], [ga2 ga5] etc.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “quack”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 庸医 (庸醫) | yōng yī | quack; charlatan |
| 冒牌 | mào pái | fake; impostor |
| 呷呷 | gā gā | (onom.) quack; honk |
| 江湖医生 (江湖醫生) | jiāng hú yī shēng | unlicensed doctor; quack; back-alley or itinerant practitioner |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 嘎嘎.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 嘎吱 | gā zhī | (onom.) creak; crunch |
| 嘎啦 | gā la | (onom.) rumbling; rattling |
| 吱吱嘎嘎 | zī zī gā gā | (onom.) creaking and grating |
| 嘎然 | gā rán | (onom.) screech of a sudden stop; suddenly stop (of sounds) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “quack”.
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.