HSK 3 · Common Objects

信用卡 xìnyòngkǎ “credit card” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 信用卡 means

  1. credit card

How to say 信用卡

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale信xìn4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale用yòng4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale卡kǎ3rd tone, dipping

信用卡 in a sentence

  1. 我想用信用卡付款。

    Wǒ xiǎng yòng xìnyòngkǎ fùkuǎn.

    I’d like to pay by credit card.

    Sentence #10733962 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我可以用哪些信用卡？

    Wǒ kěyǐ yòng nǎxiē xìnyòngkǎ?

    Which credit cards can I use?

    Sentence #870099 from Tatoeba

  3. 我经常用信用卡，而不是钞票。

    Wǒ jīngcháng yòng xìnyòngkǎ, ér bú shì chāopiào.

    I usually use a credit card rather than cash.

    Sentence #8935386 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 信用卡 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 信 (xìn) with each of its parts in a different colour
信xìnletter
  • 亻person form of 人 · rén
  • 言speech · yán

Memory aidA person 亻 and their word 言: to trust, and a letter.

The character 用 (yòng) drawn as one shape
用yòngto use; to make use of; to employ

用 is a single shape of 5 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

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 信用卡

信 9 strokes · 用 5 strokes · 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.

信用卡 (xìnyòngkǎ) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 信用卡 (xìnyòngkǎ). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 信用卡

Words with 信

信xìn · letter相信xiāngxìn · to believe自信zìxìn · to have confidence in oneself短信duǎnxìn · text message信息xìnxī · information信封xìnfēng · envelope信心xìnxīn · confidence信任xìnrèn · to trust信号xìnhào · signal确信quèxìn · to be convinced

Words with 用

用yòng · to use不用búyòng · no need to有用yǒuyòng · useful常用chángyòng · commonly used使用shǐyòng · to use作用zuòyòng · effect利用lìyòng · to make use of应用yìngyòng · to put to use运用yùnyòng · to use实用shíyòng · practical

Words with 卡

卡kǎ · card银行卡yínhángkǎ · bank card卡车kǎchē · truck卡通kǎtōng · cartoon

More words: Everyday Things

碗wǎn · bowl万wàn · ten thousand位wèi · position习惯xíguàn · habit元yuán · Chinese monetary unit张zhāng · mw for flat objects照片zhàopiàn · picture照相机zhàoxiàngjī · camera

FAQs

信用卡 (xìnyòngkǎ) means “credit card”. It is an HSK 3 word.
Say it xìnyòngkǎ: xìn with a 4th tone, then yòng with a 4th tone, then kǎ with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 信用卡 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type xinyongka with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 信用卡 from the suggestions. Typing xinyongka into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
信用卡 is an HSK 3 word in the 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.