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银行卡 yínhángkǎ “bank card” in Chinese

Traditional 銀行卡

What 银行卡 means

  1. bank card

How to say 银行卡

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale银yín2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale行háng2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale卡kǎ3rd tone, dipping

银行卡 in a sentence

  1. 钱包里有两张银行卡。

    Qiánbāo lǐ yǒu liǎng zhāng yínhángkǎ.

    There are two bank cards in the wallet.

    Sentence #3377881 from Tatoeba

  2. 今天是交学费的最后一天，我银行卡里没钱了。

    Jīntiān shì jiāo xuéfèi de zuìhòu yì tiān, wǒ yínhángkǎ lǐ méi qián le.

    Today is the last day to pay tuition fees, and there’s no money left on my bank card.

    Sentence #756889 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 银行卡 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 银 (yín) with each of its parts in a different colour
银yínsilver
  • 钅gold form of 金 · jīnMeaning part
  • 艮stopping · gěnSound part

钅 hints at the meaning (gold); 艮 (gěn) hints at the sound. Compare it with yín.

The character 行 (háng) with each of its parts in a different colour
行hángrow; line
  • 彳step · chì
  • 亍to take small steps · chù

Memory aidDrawn from a crossroads: to walk, to go. It also means a row or line (háng).

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 银行卡

银 11 strokes · 行 6 strokes · 卡 5 strokes

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

Words related to 银行卡

Words with 银

银行yínháng · bank银yín · silver

Words with 行

银行yínháng · bank不行bùxíng · won’t do行李xíngli · luggage行李箱xínglǐxiāng · trunk自行车zìxíngchē · bike行xíng · OK进行jìnxíng · to advance流行liúxíng · popular举行jǔxíng · to hold (a meeting旅行lǚxíng · to travel

Words with 卡

卡kǎ · card信用卡xìnyòngkǎ · credit card卡车kǎchē · truck卡通kǎtōng · cartoon

More words: Things & Objects

电话diànhuà · telephone男朋友nánpéngyou · boyfriend洗衣机xǐyījī · washing machine牙刷yáshuā · toothbrush雨衣yǔyī · raincoat电子书diànzǐshū · e-book图tú · picture油yóu · oil

FAQs

银行卡 (yínhángkǎ) means “bank card”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it yínhángkǎ: yín with a 2nd tone, then háng with a 2nd 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.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 银行卡 is written 銀行卡. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type yinhangka with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 银行卡 from the suggestions. Typing yinhangka into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
银行卡 is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 5 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.