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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
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
cartoon (loanword)
HSK 7-9
card
HSK 7-9
(Tibetan) rug / mat
calorie (loanword)
to be stuck / to feel stuck
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
cappuccino (loanword)
karaoke (loanword)
(Colonel Muammar) Gaddafi (1942-2011), de facto leader of Libya from 1969-2011
clip / hair fastener / checkpoint
HSK 7-9
cassette tape
to squeeze the throat / (fig.) to have in a stranglehold / critical
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
Carnegie (name) / Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), Scots American steel millionaire and philanthropist
Cartier (brand)
(name) Carter / Jimmy Carter (1924–2024), US president 1977–1981
cappuccino (loanword)
Caterpillar Inc.
Kaspersky (computer security product brand)
jammed / stuck / frozen (computer)
Calabria, southernmost Italian province
deck of cards (in a trading card game) / (ACG) pool; banner (collection of in-game items players draw from in a gacha video game)
(computing) slow; unresponsive
Kalashnikov (the AK-47 assault rifle)
cartel (loanword)
Kraft, US food company
(of a bullet or shell) to jam / (fig.) to get stuck; to be held up; to reach an impasse
Calvin (name)
Carmen (name) / Carmen, 1875 opera by Georges Bizet 比才 based on novel by Prosper Mérimée 梅里美
(Tw) to be possessed / to be bewitched
Kasimov (town in Russia)
carbine rifle (loanword)
to synchronize (a video etc) to the beat of a piece of music
Casio
portable gas stove (fueled by a gas cartridge)
Carson City, capital of Nevada
Calicut, town on Arabian sea in Kerala, India
Franz Kafka (1883-1924), Czech Jewish writer
Karachi (Pakistan)
Crocs, Inc.
go-kart
credit card debt
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")
clip; buckle
Karl Marx (1818-1883), German socialist philosopher, political activist and founder of Marxism
Karlsruhe (city in Germany)
Carolina (Puerto Rico)
Caledonia
Cartagena
canon (music) (loanword)
Carl's Jr. (fast-food restaurant chain)
cabaret (loanword)
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
Karl (name)
Karbala (city in Iraq)
calico (woven cloth from Caldicot, Kerala, India)
Cavendish (name) / Henry Cavendish (1731-1810), English nobleman and pioneer experimental scientist
Kahn
chi-square (math.)
Gamera (Japanese ガメラ Gamera), Japanese movie monster
compact digital camera / point-and-shoot camera
Cassini space probe
to jam (rifle)
calzone (Italian pocket), folded pizza
Cassini (proper name)
Kara, city in northern Togo 多哥 / Cara, Karla etc (name)
karaoke / (Tw) (of chicken etc) crispy, deep-fried
Carleton
cardboard / card stock
chuck (for a drill etc)
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
Catania, Sicily
Hamid Karzai (1957-), Afghan politician, president 2004-2014
Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798), Italian adventurer known for womanizing
Qatar (Tw)
Calvin Klein CK (brand)
khaki (loanword)
Castro (name) / Fidel Castro or Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (1926-2016), Cuban revolutionary leader, prime minister 1959-1976, president 1976-2008
Carlos (name)
Crocs, Inc.
to jam / to choke / to clutch / also pr. [qia3 zhu4]
calipers
Castellón
Castries, capital of Saint Lucia (Tw)
Cape Canaveral, Florida, home of Kennedy space center 肯尼迪航天中心
Cayenne, capital of French Guiana
cappuccino coffee
carageenan (chemistry)
Calderon (Hispanic name)
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
Cassandra (given name) / Cassandra (character in Greek mythology)

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