Translingual

Han character

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

References

• KangXi: page 158, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2781
• Dae Jaweon: page 362, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 92, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5361

Chinese

Glyph origin

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.

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

Definitions

卡

1. to wedge; to get stuck; to be jammed; to become tightly wedged
   • 魚刺卡在喉嚨裡。 / 鱼刺卡在喉咙里。  ―  Yúcì kǎ zài hóulóng lǐ.  ―  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. (of videos) to freeze up, to buffer, to stop loading

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

5. a pin, a fastener
   • 髮卡 / 发卡  ―  fàqiǎ  ―  hairpin
6. a checkpoint, a checkpost

Etymology 2

From English card.

Pronunciation

Noun

卡

1. a 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]  ―  luk¹kaat¹ [Jyutping]  ―  to swipe one's card
   • 電話卡 / 电话卡  ―  diànhuàkǎ  ―  phone card

Etymology 3

From French calorie.

Pronunciation

Noun

卡

1. Short for 卡路里 (kǎlùlǐ).

Etymology 4

From English car.

Pronunciation

Noun

卡

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

Etymology 5

From French cassette.

Pronunciation

Noun

卡

1. Short for 卡式 (“cassette”).

   卡帶 / 卡带  ―  kǎdài  ―  cassette

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

References

• “Entry #1400”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.
• “Entry #1401”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: さ (sa), か (ka), ぞう (zō), そう (sō)

Korean

Hanja

卡 • ‎(jap) (hangeul 잡, revised jap, McCune-Reischauer chap)

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Vietnamese

Han character

卡 (tạp, ca)

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