卡

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

• 佧, 咔, 拤, 胩, 鉲, 𠖺, 𡛨, 𡶛, 𣳓, 𤋈, 𤙐, 𦭌, 𪁯, 𫧱, 𫧲, 𫧳, 𫧵, 𫧶

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 158, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2781
• Dae Jaweon: page 362, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 92, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5361

This character is a vertical stacking of 上 (“up”) and 下 (“down”) with fusion of the horizontal lines, thus representing being squeezed between above and below.

Maybe cognate with 夾 (OC *kreːb, “to clip”).

卡

1. to wedge; to get stuck; to be jammed; to become tightly wedged

   魚刺卡在喉嚨裡。 [MSC, trad.]
   鱼刺卡在喉咙里。 [MSC, simp.]

   Yúcì kǎ zài hóulóng lǐ. [Pinyin]

   A fishbone is stuck in the throat.

2. to clip; to fasten
3. to scrag; to choke

   歹徒卡住他的脖子。 [MSC, trad. and simp.]

   Dǎitú kǎ zhù tā de bózǐ. [Pinyin]

   The ruffian wrung his neck.

4. (computing) to freeze up; to buffer; to stop loading; to lag

   卡在奇怪的地方  ―  kǎ zài qíguài de dìfāng  ―  it stopped (loading) at a strange frame

5. (computing) laggy; slow; not responding
6. pin; fastener

   髮卡／发卡  ―  fàqiǎ  ―  hairpin

7. checkpoint; checkpost
8. (Gan) fishbone
9. a surname: Qia

• (checkpoint): 卡子 (qiǎzi)

From English card.

卡

1. card (Classifier: 張／张)

   卡片  ―  kǎpiàn  ―  card

   記憶卡／记忆卡  ―  jìyìkǎ  ―  memory card

   賀卡／贺卡  ―  hèkǎ  ―  celebration card

   刷卡  ―  shuākǎ  ―  to swipe one's card

   碌卡 [Cantonese]  ―  luk¹ kaat¹ [Jyutping]  ―  to swipe one's card

   電話卡／电话卡  ―  diànhuàkǎ  ―  phone card

• 卡片 (kǎpiàn)

From French calorie.

卡

1. Short for 卡路里 (kǎlùlǐ).

From English car.

卡

1. truck; lorry
   • 卡車／卡车  ―  kǎchē  ―  truck
   • 貨卡／货卡  ―  huòkǎ  ―  cargo truck
2. railcar

   九卡列車／九卡列车 [Cantonese]  ―  gau² kaa¹ lit⁶ ce¹ [Jyutping]  ―  nine-car train

From French cassette.

卡

1. Short for 卡式 (kǎshì, “cassette”).

   卡帶／卡带  ―  kǎdài  ―  cassette

   雙卡錄音機／双卡录音机  ―  shuāng kǎ lùyīnjī  ―  dual cassette recorder

From English carat.

卡

1. (Hong Kong) carat (unit of weight equivalent to 200 milligrams)

卡

1. Used in transcription.

• “Entry #1400”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.
• “Entry #1401”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. card

• Go-on: ぞう (zō)^{←ざふ (zafu, historical)}
• Kan-on: そう (sō)^{←さふ (safu, historical)}
• Tō-on: さ (sa)
• Kan’yō-on: か (ka)

卡 (eum 잡 (jap))

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卡: Hán Nôm readings: tạp, ca

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