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  *卡* | 卡* | *卡
to stop / to block / (computing) (coll.) slow / (loanword) card / CL: 張|张, / truck (from "car") / calorie (abbr. for 卡路里) / cassette
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  *卡* | 卡* | *卡
to block / to be stuck / to be wedged / customs station / a clip / a fastener / a checkpost / Taiwan pr. [ka3]
HSK 7-9
card
HSK 7-9
cartoon (loanword)
HSK 7-9
truck / CL: 輛|辆
HSK 7-9
clip / hair fastener / checkpoint
HSK 7-9
Karl Marx (1818-1883), German socialist philosopher, political activist and founder of Marxism
Carlos (name)
Cameron (name)
Qatar
(of a device) designed to accept a cassette, cartridge or canister (loanword from "cassette") / designed to have a card or ticket inserted (also written 插卡式) (loanword from "card")
cardboard / card stock
cassette tape
Cartagena
cabaret (loanword)
Karl (name)
Cagliari, Sardinia
khaki (loanword)
Kahn
Carleton
Casio
Franz Kafka (1883-1924), Czech Jewish writer
calorie (loanword)
(of a bullet or shell) to jam / (fig.) to get stuck; to be held up; to reach an impasse
Hamid Karzai (1957-), Afghan politician, president 2004-2014
cappuccino (loanword)
Castro (name) / Fidel Castro or Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (1926-2016), Cuban revolutionary leader, prime minister 1959-1976, president 1976-2008
calipers
go-kart
Carnegie (name) / Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), Scots American steel millionaire and philanthropist
Carmen (name) / Carmen, 1875 opera by Georges Bizet 比才 based on novel by Prosper Mérimée 梅里美
Casablanca (Morocco's economic capital)
BCG vaccine / bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccine
Karachi (Pakistan)
Calvin (name)
Kaspersky (computer security product brand)
(Colonel Muammar) Gaddafi (1942-2011), de facto leader of Libya from 1969-2011
(computing) slow; unresponsive
cute / adorable / charming (loanword from Japanese)
cartel (loanword)
karaoke (loanword)
Cassandra (given name) / Cassandra (character in Greek mythology)
Karlsruhe (city in Germany)
carbine rifle (loanword)
Calabria, southernmost Italian province
to jam / to choke / to clutch / also pr. [qia3 zhu4]
Calderon (Hispanic name)
Kara, city in northern Togo 多哥 / Cara, Karla etc (name)
karaoke / (Tw) (of chicken etc) crispy, deep-fried
Karbala (city in Iraq)
kappa (Greek letter Κκ)
Castries, capital of Saint Lucia
playing card
Castellón
to synchronize (a video etc) to the beat of a piece of music
canon (music) (loanword)
variant of 卡哇伊
Qatar (Tw)
(acting) cast (loanword)
to be stuck / to feel stuck
XLR connector
Kraft, US food company
(Tibetan) rug / mat
chuck (for a drill etc)
(sports) to jockey for position; (basketball) to box out; (commerce) to establish oneself in a competitive market (also pr. [qia3 wei4]) / booth seating (always pr. [ka3 wei4] for this sense)
clip; buckle
(electronics) card slot (for SD card, SIM card etc) / clamping groove
carageenan (chemistry)
Cayenne, capital of French Guiana
jammed / stuck / frozen (computer)
Cartier (brand)
(loanword) (medicine) catarrh
clip / latch (on a clip-into-place component)
chi-square (math.)
Calgary, largest city of Alberta, Canada
to squeeze the throat / (fig.) to have in a stranglehold / critical
booth (in restaurants etc) (loanword from "car seat")
to jam (rifle)
crispy, deep-fried (variant of 卡拉)
Karadžić (Serbian surname) / Radovan Karadžić (1945-), former Bosnian Serb leader, convicted war criminal / Vuk Karadžić (1787-1864), Serbian linguist
a slave to one's credit card / sb who is unable to repay their credit card borrowings
Catania, Sicily
Caen (French town)
Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky 陀思妥耶夫斯基
Castilla, old Spanish kingdom / modern Spanish provinces of Castilla-Leon and Castilla-La Mancha
(name) Carter / Jimmy Carter (1924-2024), US president 1977-1981
Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798), Italian adventurer known for womanizing
Karnataka (formerly Mysore), southwest Indian state, capital Bangalore 班加羅爾|班加罗尔
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
credit card debt
Kalashnikov (the AK-47 assault rifle)
Castilian Spanish
Crocs, Inc.
Kannada (language)
Katyusha (name) / name of a Russian wartime song / nickname of a rocket launcher used by the Red Army in WWII / also written 喀秋莎
(Tw) Caracas, capital of Venezuela
Cape Canaveral, Florida, home of Kennedy space center 肯尼迪航天中心
calico (woven cloth from Caldicot, Kerala, India)
cappuccino (loanword)
portable gas stove (fueled by a gas cartridge)

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