卡

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

• 佧, 咔, 拤, 胩, 鉲, 𠖺, 𡛨, 𡶛, 𣳓, 𤋈, 𤙐, 𦭌, 𪁯, 𫧱, 𫧲, 𫧳, 𫧵, 𫧶

• 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

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.

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

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. (computing) to freeze up; to buffer; to stop loading; to lag

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

5. (computing) laggy; slow; not responding
6. pin; fastener
   • 髮卡 / 发卡  ―  fàqiǎ  ―  hairpin
7. checkpoint; checkpost

From English card.

卡

1. 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]  ―  luk¹ kaat¹ [Jyutping]  ―  to swipe one's card
   • 電話卡 / 电话卡  ―  diànhuàkǎ  ―  phone card

From French calorie.

卡

1. Short for 卡路里 (kǎlùlǐ).

From English car.

卡

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

From French cassette.

卡

1. Short for 卡式 (kǎshì, “cassette”).

   卡帶 / 卡带  ―  kǎdài  ―  cassette

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

From English carat.

卡

1. (Hong Kong) carat (unit of weight equivalent to 200 milligrams)

• “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.

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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• Go-on: ぞう (zō)^{←ざふ (zafu, historical)}
• Kan-on: そう (sō)^{←さふ (safu, historical)}
• Tō-on: さ (sa)
• Kan’yō-on: か (ka)

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

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卡 (tạp, ca)

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