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卡
kǎ
1. to stop
2. to block
3. card
4. CL:[[張|张<zhāng>]], [[片<piàn>]]
5. calorie
6. cassette
7. (computing) (coll.) slow
Very Common • Top 0% ✏️ 5 strokes

Character Breakdown (Single character)

卡
kǎ
card, punch card; calorie
HSK 3 5 丶

Compound Words (20)

发卡
fākǎ
to issue a card
卡门
Kǎmén
Carmen (name)
玛卡
mǎkǎ
maca (Lepidium meyenii)
莱卡
Láikǎ
Leica camera
闪卡
shǎnkǎ
flashcard
卡车
kǎchē
truck
HSK 5
卡达
Kǎdá
Qatar
房卡
fángkǎ
room card (in a hotel)
涤卡
díkǎ
polyester khaki
磁卡
cíkǎ
magnetic card
声卡
shēngkǎ
sound card
达卡
Dákǎ
Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh
卡牌
kǎpái
playing card
卡纸
kǎzhǐ
cardboard
卡农
kǎnóng
canon (music)
卡通
kǎtōng
cartoon (loanword)
HSK 6
唐卡
tángkǎ
thangka (Buddhist banner)
大卡
dàkǎ
kilocalorie
打卡
dǎkǎ
to clock in or out (of a job etc)
林卡
línkǎ
transliteration of Tibetan lingka: garden

Alternate Entries

卡
qiǎ
to block / to be stuck / to be wedged / customs station / a clip / a fastener / a checkpost / Taiwan pr. <kǎ>

Metadata

Category
Chinese
HSK Character Level
3
Character Frequency Rank
716
Word Frequency Rank
240 of 84,292