卡 (kǎ)
card; to block/stuck; calorie
How 卡 is written
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- ⺊ — divination
- Traditional
- 卡
- Simplified
- 卡 (unchanged)
Components
- ⺊ divination
- 一 one
- 卜 divination
卡 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- kǎ
- to stop; to block; card; CL:張|张[zhang1],片[pian4]
- qiǎ
- to block; to be stuck; to be wedged; customs station
Common words using 卡
- 信用卡 xìnyòngkǎ
- credit card
- 充值卡 chōngzhíkǎ
- to recharge card (phone)
- 打卡 dǎkǎ
- to clock in or out (of a job etc)
- 摩卡 mókǎ
- mocha
- 賀卡 hèkǎ
- greeting card; congratulation card
- 借記卡 jièjìkǎ
- debit card
- 刷卡 shuākǎ
- to use a credit card
- 卡丁車 kǎdīngchē
- kart racing
- 卡住 kǎzhù
- to jam; to choke; to clutch
- 卡哇伊 kǎwāyī
- cute; adorable; charming (loanword from Japanese)
- 卡布奇諾 kǎbùqínuò
- cappuccino (coffee)
- 卡拉 kǎlā
- Kara (Togo)
卡 in a sentence
請問可以刷卡嗎？
Qǐngwèn kěyǐ shuākǎ ma?
“Can I pay by credit card?”
How common is 卡?
卡 is the 716th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 83.2% of all running text.
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