(kǎ) - card; to be stuck in Mandarin
kǎTraditional: 卡
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Translation
card; to be stuck
Word origin
卡 means card and also to be stuck or wedged. It is a borrowed phonetic transcription of English 'card'; the graph itself is composed of 上 (up) over 下 (down), suggesting something caught between, neither up nor down.
- Origin
- loanword
- Root
- 卡 (kǎ), 上 'up' over 下 'down'; transcribes English 'card'
- English cognates
- card
Stroke order
卡
Examples
。
I have lost my bank card.
。
The door is stuck there.
。
My mother gave me this card.
卡 (kǎ) means card or to be stuck.
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 卡.
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