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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
HSK 2
cartoon (loanword)
HSK 7-9
truck / CL: 輛|辆
HSK 7-9
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
card
HSK 7-9
clip / hair fastener / checkpoint
HSK 7-9
capoeira (loanword)
Qatar (Tw)
karaoke (loanword)
khaki (loanword)
Karachi (Pakistan)
Carlos (name)
Castro (name) / Fidel Castro or Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (1926-2016), Cuban revolutionary leader, prime minister 1959-1976, president 1976-2008
Carl's Jr. (fast-food restaurant chain)
Castries, capital of Saint Lucia (Tw)
jammed / stuck / frozen (computer)
(computing) slow; unresponsive
Kahn
calorie (loanword)
Karl (name)
Kara, city in northern Togo 多哥 / Cara, Karla etc (name)
karaoke / (Tw) (of chicken etc) crispy, deep-fried
(name) Carter / Jimmy Carter (1924-2024), US president 1977-1981
(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
Cassandra (given name) / Cassandra (character in Greek mythology)
cassette tape
Carleton
Carmen (name) / Carmen, 1875 opera by Georges Bizet 比才 based on novel by Prosper Mérimée 梅里美
(acting) cast (loanword)
Qatar
Kraft, US food company
Franz Kafka (1883-1924), Czech Jewish writer
Cameron (name)
Castilla-Leon, north Spanish province
Casablanca (Morocco's economic capital)
Cagliari, Sardinia
chuck (for a drill etc)
Cassini (proper name)
Carnegie (name) / Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), Scots American steel millionaire and philanthropist
Calvin (name)
Karlsruhe (city in Germany)
Castilla, old Spanish kingdom / modern Spanish provinces of Castilla-Leon and Castilla-La Mancha
to squeeze the throat / (fig.) to have in a stranglehold / critical
carbine rifle (loanword)
booth (in restaurants etc) (loanword from "car seat")
(loanword) (medicine) catarrh
Calabria, southernmost Italian province
Kaposi's sarcoma
(of a bullet or shell) to jam / (fig.) to get stuck; to be held up; to reach an impasse
Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798), Italian adventurer known for womanizing
Cayenne, capital of French Guiana
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
playing card
(loanword) kvass
Karamchand (name)
Karadžić (Serbian surname) / Radovan Karadžić (1945-), former Bosnian Serb leader, convicted war criminal / Vuk Karadžić (1787-1864), Serbian linguist
compact digital camera / point-and-shoot camera
Cartagena
Castellón
(Colonel Muammar) Gaddafi (1942-2011), de facto leader of Libya from 1969-2011
to be stuck / to feel stuck
(sports) to jockey for position; (basketball) to box out; (commerce) to establish oneself in a competitive market (also pr. [qia3wei4]) / booth seating
to synchronize (a video etc) to the beat of a piece of music
Castries, capital of Saint Lucia
BCG vaccine / bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccine
Caledonia
Kasimov (town in Russia)
(Tibetan) rug / mat
Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky 陀思妥耶夫斯基
to jam / to choke / to clutch / also pr. [qia3 zhu4]
clip; buckle
Karbala (city in Iraq)
XLR connector
kappa (Greek letter Κκ)
clip / latch (on a clip-into-place component)
to jam (rifle)
(Tw) (loanword) custard
Kaspersky (computer security product brand)
crispy, deep-fried (variant of 卡拉)
cappuccino (loanword)
a slave to one's credit card / sb who is unable to repay their credit card borrowings
Cartier (brand)
(electronics) card slot (for SD card, SIM card etc) / clamping groove
chi-square (math.)
calipers
go-kart
portable gas stove (fueled by a gas cartridge)
Catania, Sicily
Karnataka (formerly Mysore), southwest Indian state, capital Bangalore 班加羅爾|班加罗尔
(Tw) to be possessed / to be bewitched
cute / adorable / charming (loanword from Japanese)
carnitine (loanword) (biochemistry)
Carson City, capital of Nevada
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
variant of 卡哇伊
carageenan (chemistry)
Calgary, largest city of Alberta, Canada
canelé (a French pastry) (loanword)
Camelot, seat of legendary King Arthur

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