卡

Translingual

Etymology

This character represents being squeezed between above and below.

Han character

卡 (radical 25 卜+3, 5 strokes, cangjie input 卜一卜 (YMY), four-corner 2123₁, composition ⿱上卜)

1. card, punch card

References

• KangXi: page 158, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2781
• Dae Jaweon: page 362, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 92, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5361

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Cantonese

Hanzi

卡 (Yale ka1, ka2)

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Japanese

Kanji

卡

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

• On: さふ (safu), さ (sa), か (ka), ぞう (zō), そう (sō)

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Korean

Hanja

卡 (jap) (hangeul 잡, revised jap, McCune-Reischauer chap)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Hanzi

卡 (Pinyin kǎ (ka3), qiǎ (qia3), Wade-Giles k'a³, ch'ia³)

1. stuck
2. calorie

Compounds

• 卡賓槍
• 卡通

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Vietnamese

Han character

卡 (tạp, ca)