HSK 3.0 Level 3 · Body

卡 kǎ “card” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 卡 means

  1. card
  2. to stop
  3. to block
  4. (computing) (coll.) slow
  5. truck (from “car”)
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • calorie (abbr. for 卡路里)

Measure word 张 zhāng or 片 piàn · 一张卡 yì zhāng kǎ

How to say 卡

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale卡kǎ3rd tone, dipping

卡 in a sentence

  1. 我可以刷卡吗？

    Wǒ kěyǐ shuākǎ ma?

    Can I pay by card?

    Sentence #399058 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 您有会员卡吗？

    Nín yǒu huìyuán kǎ ma?

    Do you have a membership card?

    Sentence #437263 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 带上你的学生卡。

    Dàishàng nǐ de xuésheng kǎ.

    Bring your student card.

    Sentence #5451949 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 卡 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 卡 (kǎ) with each of its parts in a different colour
卡kǎto stop
  • 上above · shǎng
  • 卜divination · bǔ

Memory aid上 (above) and 下 (below) squeezed into one: stuck in between, as in 卡住 (qiǎzhù) “stuck”, where it is read qiǎ. Read kǎ, it writes loanwords such as 卡车 (kǎchē) “truck” and 卡 “card”.

How to write 卡

卡 5 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

卡 (kǎ) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 卡 (kǎ). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 卡

Words with 卡

信用卡xìnyòngkǎ · credit card银行卡yínhángkǎ · bank card卡车kǎchē · truck卡通kǎtōng · cartoon

More words: Body & Everyday Things

信xìn · letter酒jiǔ · alcohol队duì · team气qì · air眼yǎn · eye

FAQs

卡 (kǎ) means “card” or “to stop”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it kǎ: kǎ with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 卡 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Use 张 (zhāng) or 片 (piàn). For example, one card is 一张卡 (yì zhāng kǎ).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type ka with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 卡 from the suggestions. Typing ka into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
卡 is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 3 word list. It is not on the older HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.