GA-1

('ga' in the firsttone)

Even though the Chinese language assembles all meanings from just around 400 morphemes, the great majority of which consists of an initial consonant, followed by a single or double vowel, some possible combinations of an initial consonant plus a single or double vowel are hardly used. This is the case for the initial sound 'g'. The only really common originally Chinese word with the initial 'g' is 给 = gei(3) = to give, for. The initial 'g' followed by 'a' is used in some loan words.

咖喱 = ga(1)li(2) = curry

The mouth radical before 加 and 厘 indicates that the character is a sound approximation.