卡

HSK 3#670 by frequencyradical 卜

kǎ["n","v","g"]

(loanword) card; to stop; to block; (computing) (coll.) slow; truck (from "car"); calorie (abbr. for 里); cassette

qiǎ["n","v","g"]

to be stuck; to be wedged; to block; customs station; a clip; a fastener; a checkpost; Taiwan pr. [kǎ]

Measure words: 张, 片

Examples

我已经刷卡了。

I already swiped the card.

牙齿卡了点东西。

You've got something in your teeth.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.