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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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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
cartoon (loanword)
HSK 7-9
card
HSK 7-9
XLR connector
truck / CL: 輛|辆
HSK 7-9
Cameron (name)
Qatar
calorie (loanword)
booth (in restaurants etc) (loanword from "car seat")
a slave to one's credit card / sb who is unable to repay their credit card borrowings
karaoke (loanword)
go-kart
Casio
(Colonel Muammar) Gaddafi (1942-2011), de facto leader of Libya from 1969-2011
carbine rifle (loanword)
clip / hair fastener / checkpoint
HSK 7-9
to squeeze the throat / (fig.) to have in a stranglehold / critical
Calvin Klein CK (brand)
cardboard / card stock
cute / adorable / charming (loanword from Japanese)
(sports) to jockey for position; (basketball) to box out; (commerce) to establish oneself in a competitive market (also pr. [qia3wei4]) / booth seating
playing card
Casimir effect (attraction between two parallel metal plates due to quantum mechanical vacuum effects)
(name) Carter / Jimmy Carter (1924–2024), US president 1977–1981
Castro (name) / Fidel Castro or Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (1926-2016), Cuban revolutionary leader, prime minister 1959-1976, president 1976-2008
to jam (rifle)
Caterpillar Inc.
Cartier (brand)
Kaspersky (computer security product brand)
portable gas stove (fueled by a gas cartridge)
carageenan (chemistry)
jammed / stuck / frozen (computer)
to synchronize (a video etc) to the beat of a piece of music
deck of cards (in a trading card game) / (ACG) pool; banner (collection of in-game items players draw from in a gacha video game)
Carmen (name) / Carmen, 1875 opera by Georges Bizet 比才 based on novel by Prosper Mérimée 梅里美
Carnegie (name) / Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), Scots American steel millionaire and philanthropist
Kalashnikov (the AK-47 assault rifle)
Kraft, US food company
Carl's Jr. (fast-food restaurant chain)
cappuccino (loanword)
(of a bullet or shell) to jam / (fig.) to get stuck; to be held up; to reach an impasse
compact digital camera / point-and-shoot camera
Kasimov (town in Russia)
Carson City, capital of Nevada
Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798), Italian adventurer known for womanizing
Calicut, town on Arabian sea in Kerala, India
Franz Kafka (1883-1924), Czech Jewish writer
(Tibetan) rug / mat
Karachi (Pakistan)
(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")
credit card debt
Cagliari, Sardinia
clip; buckle
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
Cape Canaveral, Florida
Hamid Karzai (1957-), Afghan politician, president 2004-2014
Kannada (language)
Carleton
to be stuck / to feel stuck
calico (woven cloth from Caldicot, Kerala, India)
Cavendish (name) / Henry Cavendish (1731-1810), English nobleman and pioneer experimental scientist
Karbala (city in Iraq)
Crocs, Inc.
Karl (name)
cappuccino (loanword)
Kahn
Calderon (Hispanic name)
chi-square (math.)
Gamera (Japanese ガメラ Gamera), Japanese movie monster
Karlsruhe (city in Germany)
Casablanca (Morocco's economic capital)
(computing) slow; unresponsive
Cassini space probe
calzone (Italian pocket), folded pizza
Cassini (proper name)
cappuccino coffee
Kara, city in northern Togo 多哥 / Cara, Karla etc (name)
karaoke / (Tw) (of chicken etc) crispy, deep-fried
chuck (for a drill etc)
cabaret (loanword)
Karnataka (formerly Mysore), southwest Indian state, capital Bangalore 班加羅爾|班加罗尔
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
BCG vaccine / bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccine
Castilla, old Spanish kingdom / modern Spanish provinces of Castilla-Leon and Castilla-La Mancha
Castilla-Leon, north Spanish province
Karl Marx (1818-1883), German socialist philosopher, political activist and founder of Marxism
cartel (loanword)
(loanword) custard
khaki (loanword)
Crocs, Inc.
Carlos (name)
to jam / to choke / to clutch / also pr. [qia3 zhu4]
Cartagena
calipers
Castellón
Castries, capital of Saint Lucia (Tw)
Cayenne, capital of French Guiana
Calvin (name)
canelé (a French pastry) (loanword)

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