kǎ
to stop
to block
card
CL:張|张[zhang1],片[pian4]
calorie
cassette
(computing) (coll.) slow
qiǎ
to block
to be stuck
to be wedged
customs station
a clip
a fastener
a checkpost
Taiwan pr. [ka3]
hè kǎ
greeting card
congratulation card
Kǎ mén
Carmen (name)
Carmen, 1875 opera by Georges Bizet 比才 based on novel by Prosper Mérimée 梅里美[Mei2 li3 mei3]
Sī lǐ lán kǎ
Sri Lanka
(formerly) Ceylon
guān kǎ
customs post
tax or road safety inspection station
outpost
fā kǎ
to issue a card
(slang) to reject a guy or a girl
to chuck
cí kǎ
magnetic card
IC Card (telephone)
Kǎ tè
Carter (name)
James Earl (Jimmy) Carter (1924-), US Democrat politician, president 1977-1981
xiǎn kǎ
video card
display card (computer)
shuā kǎ
to use a credit card (or swipe card, smart card etc)
Ào sī kǎ
Oscar, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences annual award
CL:屆|届[jie4]
Lái kǎ
Leica camera
Lycra (fiber or fabric)
wǎng kǎ
network adapter card (computing)
lǜ kǎ
United States permanent resident card
green card
dǎ kǎ
to clock in or out (of a job etc)
kǎ lā O K5
karaoke (singing to recorded instrumental accompaniment; Japanese: empty orchestra)
kǎ wā yī
cute
adorable
charming (loanword from Japanese)
kǎ zhù
to jam
to choke
to clutch
also pr. [qia3 zhu4]
Ā ěr kǎ tè
Alcatel, old company name
kǎ shì
cassette style (tape and tape player)
chōng zhí kǎ
rechargeable card
to recharge a card
Yī kǎ tōng
Yikatong (Beijing public transport smart card)
táng kǎ
thangka (Buddhist banner)
Ā kǎ
Acre, city in Israel, also known as Akko
kǎ sǐ
jammed
stuck
frozen (computer)
jiāo tōng kǎ
public transportation card
prepaid transit card
subway pass
Kǎ lā
Kara, city in northern Togo 多哥[Duo1 ge1]
Cara, Karla etc (name)
Kǎ fū kǎ
Franz Kafka (1883-1924), Czech Jewish writer
chǔ zhí kǎ
stored-value card
pre-paid card (telephone, transport etc)
Dá kǎ
Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh
(Tw) Dakar, capital of Senegal
Ào sī kǎ jīn xiàng jiǎng
Academy Awards
Oscars
CL:屆|届[jie4]
mǔ dan kǎ
Peony Card (credit card issued by Industrial and Commercial Bank of China)
Kǎ sī tè luó
Castro (name)
Fidel Castro or Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (1926-), Cuban revolutionary leader, prime minister 1959-1976, president 1976-2008
Kǎ nèi jī
Carnegie (name)
Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), Scots American steel millionaire and philanthropist
kǎ jiè miáo
BCG vaccine
bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccine
cháng chéng kǎ
Great Wall Card (credit card issued by Bank of China)
Lú kǎ shēn kē
Aleksandr Grigoryevich Lukachenko, president of Belarus from 1994
Kǎ ěr jiā lǐ
Calgary, largest city of Alberta, Canada
Kǎ sà bù lán kǎ
Casablanca (Morocco's economic capital)
pǔ lǔ kǎ yīn
procaine (nerve blocking agent) (loanword)
Pà sī kǎ
Pascal (name)
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), French mathematician
Dí kǎ ěr
René Descartes (1596-1650) French philosopher
lín kǎ
transliteration of Tibetan lingka: garden
Ān kǎ lā
Ankara, capital of Turkey
Kǎ ěr zā yī
Hamid Karzai (1957-), Afghan politician, president from 2004
Dí kǎ ér
René Descartes (1596-1650), French philosopher and author of Discours de la méthode 方法論|方法论
Kǎ ěr sī lǔ è
Karlsruhe (city in Germany)
mù kǎ mǔ
muqam, Uyghur melody types that are the basis for a set of suites
Luó bù lín kǎ
Norbulingka (Tibetan: precious garden), summer residence of Dalai Lamas in Lhasa, Tibet
qiǎ bó zi
to squeeze the throat
(fig.) to have in a stranglehold
critical
Kǎ zhā fēi
(Colonel Muammar) Gaddafi (1942-2011), de facto leader of Libya from 1969-2011
Kǎ nèi jī Méi lóng dà xué
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
Kǎ ěr · Mǎ kè sī
Karl Marx (1818-1883), German socialist philosopher, political activist and founder of Marxism
Mò zhú gōng kǎ
Maizhokunggar county, Tibetan: Mal gro gung dkar rdzong in Lhasa 拉薩|拉萨[La1 sa4], Tibet
Yè kǎ jié lín nà
Yekaterina or Ekaterina (name)
Catherine the Great or Catherine the Second (1684-1727), Empress of Russia
Yóu kǎ tǎn
Yucatan (Mexican province)
Yè kǎ jié lín bǎo
Yekaterinburg (Russian city, also known as Ekaterinburg or Sverdlovsk)
Yī sà kǎ
Ithaca, Island state of Greece, the home of Odysseus 奧迪修斯|奥迪修斯
Ithaca NY, location of Cornell University 康奈爾|康奈尔
Lú sà kǎ
Lusaka, capital of Zambia
Làng kǎ zǐ
Nagarzê county, Tibetan: Sna dkar rtse rdzong, in Lhokha prefecture 山南地區|山南地区[Shan1 nan2 di4 qu1], Tibet
Kǎ sī dì lì yà
Castilla, old Spanish kingdom
modern Spanish provinces of Castilla-Leon and Castilla-La Mancha
Mò zhú gōng kǎ xiàn
Maizhokunggar county, Tibetan: Mal gro gung dkar rdzong in Lhasa 拉薩|拉萨[La1 sa4], Tibet
Kǎ sāng dé lā
Cassandra (name)
Cassandra, daughter of king Priam in Greek mythology
prophet of doom
Kǎ lā shí ní kē fū
Kalashnikov (the AK-47 assault rifle)
Yóu kǎ tǎn bàn dǎo
Yucatan peninsula (Mexico)
Kǎ nà wéi lā ěr jiǎo
Cape Canaveral, Florida, home of Kennedy space center 肯尼迪航天中心[Ken3 ni2 di2 Hang2 tian1 Zhong1 xin1]
Kǎ lā bù lǐ yà
Calabria, southernmost Italian province
Kǎ nà tǎ kè bāng
Karnataka, southwest Indian state, capital Bangalore 班加羅爾|班加罗尔[Ban1 jia1 luo2 er3]
formerly Mysore
Kǎ lā jì jī
Radovan Karadžić (1945-), former Bosnian Serb leader and war criminal
Sà kǎ shí wéi lì
Mikheil Saakashvili (1967-), Georgian politician, president of Georgia since 2004
Kǎ wén dí shí
Cavendish (name)
Henry Cavendish (1731-1810), English nobleman and pioneer experimental scientist
Làng kǎ zǐ xiàn
Nagarzê county, Tibetan: Sna dkar rtse rdzong, in Lhokha prefecture 山南地區|山南地区[Shan1 nan2 di4 qu1], Tibet
Sà sī kǎ tōng
Saskatoon city, Saskatchewan, Canada
shēn fèn shí bié kǎ
identification card
ID card
Méng tè kǎ luò fǎ
Monte Carlo method (math.)
Kǎ lā mǎ zuǒ fū xiōng dì
Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky 陀思妥耶夫斯基
Nà huò dé kǎ
Nakhodka (city in Russia)
lā nà kǎ
Larnaca (city in Cyprus)
Larnaka
Ā kǎ dí yà Dà xué
Acadia University (Canada)
Kǎ wǎ gé bó fēng
Mt Kawakarpo (6740 m) in Yunnan, the highest peak of Meri snow mountains 梅里雪山[Mei2 li3 xue3 shan1]
Kǎ měi lā
Gamera (Japanese ガメラ Gamera), Japanese movie monster
Jié xī kǎ · Ài ěr bā
Jessica Alba, American actress
Kǎ lì kǎ tè
Calicut, town on Arabian sea in Kerala, India
Dào kǎ sī zú
Taokas, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
Lí chí Kǎ dēng
Ritz-Carlton (hotel chain)
Bèi kǎ gǔ dì
Bekaa valley between Lebanon and Syria
Āi dí kǎ lā
Ediacaran (c. 635-542 million years ago), late phase of pre-Cambrian geological era
Jié xī kǎ · Ài bā
Jessica Alba, American actress
Rè bǐ yà · Kǎ dé ěr
Rebiya Kadeer or Rabiye Qadir (1947-), Uighur businesswoman and activist, imprisoned 1999-2005, then President of the World Uighur Congress
Kǎ sī dì lì yà · lái áng
Castilla-Leon, north Spanish province
Kǎ měi luò
Camelot, seat of legendary King Arthur
Kǎ lè xīng
Carl's Jr. (fast-food restaurant chain)
Āi dí kǎ lā jì
Ediacaran period (c. 635-542 million years ago), late phase of pre-Cambrian geological era
Bā ní yà Lú kǎ
Banja Luka (city in Bosnia)
Lā shí kǎ ěr Jiā
Lashkar Gah, capital of Helmand province in south Afghanistan
pà sī kǎ sān jiǎo xíng
Pascal's Triangle (math.)
Hā nǔ kǎ
Hanukkah (Chanukah), 8 day Jewish holiday starting on the 25th day of Kislev (can occur from late Nov up to late Dec on Gregorian calendar)
also called 光明節|光明节 and 哈努卡節|哈努卡节
kǎ lì kē
calico (woven cloth from Caldicot, Kerala, India)
Pà lán kǎ
Palanka (a personal name)
Kǎ xī mǐ ěr xiào yìng
Casimir effect (attraction between two parallel metal plates due to quantum mechanical vacuum effects)
Hā mǐ ěr kǎ
Hamilcar (c. 270-228 BC), Carthaginian statesman and general
Hā nǔ kǎ jié
Hanukkah (Chanukah), 8 day Jewish holiday starting on the 25th day of Kislev (can occur from late Nov up to late Dec on Gregorian calendar)
also called 光明節|光明节 and simply 哈努卡
Ā kǎ dī
Arcadia (Greek prefecture on the Peloponnese)
Kǎ sī cuì
Castries, capital of Saint Lucia (Tw)
Bèi lì kǎ dēng
Ballycotton (Irish: Baile Choitín), village near Cork
Ballycotton, music band
kǎ luò nà
calzone (Italian pocket), folded pizza
Ài dí kǎ lā
Ediacaran (c. 635-542 million years ago), late phase of pre-Cambrian geological era
also written 埃迪卡拉[Ai1 di2 ka3 la1]
Kǎ lā jī nà
Krajina (former Yugoslavia)
Guā dá kǎ nà ěr zhàn yì
battle of Guadalcanal of late 1942, the turning point of the war in the Pacific
Rè bǐ yà · Kǎ dé ěr
Rebiya Kadeer or Rabiye Qadir (1947-), Uighur businesswoman and activist, imprisoned 1999-2005, then President of the World Uighur Congress
Píng kǎ fēi ěr tè
Pinkafeld (Hungarian Pinkafő) Austrian town on the border with Hungary
Sī kǎ bó lè Jiāo
Scarborough Shoal (Philippines' name for Huangyan Island)
Yè kǎ tè lín nà bǎo
Ekaterinaburg or Ekaterinburg (formerly Sverdlovsk), Russian town on the Ural mountains
kǎ dā shēng , dī da shēng
onomat. clunk click
tick tock
chàng tán huà kǎ
long-term calling card (telephone)
Dí kǎ ér zuò biāo zhì
Cartesian coordinate system
Kǎ mén bó rǔ lào
Camembert (soft, creamy French cheese)
Yōu yóu Kǎ
EasyCard, smartcard used for payment on public transport and at other businesses such as convenience stores in Taipei and surrounding areas
tuō kǎ tǎ
toccata (music) (loanword)
Tuō pí kǎ
Topeka, capital of Kansas
Lā nà kǎ
Larnaca (city in Cyprus)
Larnaka
Jié xī kǎ · Ài bā
Jessica Alba, American actress
Rè bǐ yà · Kǎ dé ěr
Rebiya Kadeer or Rabiye Qadir (1947-), Uighur businesswoman and activist, imprisoned 1999-2005, then President of the World Uighur Congress
Rè bǐ yà · Kǎ dé ěr
Rebiya Kadeer or Rabiye Qadir (1947-), Uighur businesswoman and activist, imprisoned 1999-2005, then President of the World Uighur Congress
Yóu kǎ tǎn Bàn dǎo
Yucatan Peninsula (Mexico)
Cān kǎ ěr
Ivan Cankar (1876-1918), Slovenian modernist writer
chī ná qiǎ yào
dinner invitations, grabbing, obstructing and demanding bribes
all kinds of abuse of power
Tú tǎn kǎ méng
Tutankhamen, king of ancient Egypt 1333-1323 BC
Tú tǎn kǎ mén
Tutankhamen, king of ancient Egypt 1333-1323 BC
Ān nà · Kǎ liè ní nà
Anna Karenina, novel by Leo Tolstoy 列夫·托爾斯泰|列夫·托尔斯泰[Lie4 fu1 · Tuo1 er3 si1 tai4]
fā hǎo rén kǎ
(slang) to reject sb (by labeling them a 'nice guy')
Lù shā kǎ
Lusaka, capital of Zambia (Tw)
guān qiǎ
checkpoint (for taxation, security etc)
barrier
hurdle
red tape
CL:個|个[ge4],道[dao4]
mǎ kǎ lóng
macaron, French pastry with a soft filling sandwiched between the meringue-based cookie shells (loanword)
Mǎ ěr kǎ Hé
Malka River, Russia, a.k.a. Balyksu River
Mǎ lüè kǎ
Majorca (island of Spain)
Mǎ yāo kǎ
Majorca (island of Spain)
Bèi kǎ Gǔ dì
Bekaa Valley between Lebanon and Syria
bǔ kǎ
to replace a lost or damaged SIM card, retaining one's original telephone number
SIM replacement
Méng tè Kǎ luó fāng fǎ
Monte Carlo method (math.)
pí kǎ
pickup (truck) (loanword)
lǜ kǎ
United States permanent resident card
green card
Mò ní kǎ · Lái wēn sī jī
Monica Lewinsky (1973-), former White House intern
Méng dì Kǎ luó
Monte-Carlo (Monaco) (Tw)
Méng tè Kǎ luò fǎ
Monte Carlo method (math.)
kǎ wā yī
variant of 卡哇伊[ka3 wa1 yi1]
kǎ nú
a slave to one's credit card
sb who is unable to repay their credit card borrowings
qiǎ zi
clip
hair fastener
checkpoint
Kǎ yàn
Cayenne, capital of French Guiana
kǎ dào yīn
(Tw) to be possessed
to be bewitched
Jié xī kǎ · Ài ěr bā
Jessica Alba, American actress
Kǎ nèi jī Méi lóng Dà xué
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
kǎ ní dīng
carnitine (loanword) (biochemistry)
Kǎ bā sī jī
Kaspersky (computer security product brand)
Kǎ qiū shā
Katyusha (name)
name of a Russian wartime song
nickname of a rocket launcher used by the Red Army in WWII
also written 喀秋莎
Kǎ sà nuò wǎ
Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798), Italian adventurer known for womanizing
Kǎ ěr · Mǎ kè sī
Karl Marx (1818-1883), German socialist philosopher, political activist and founder of Marxism
Kǎ lā kǎ sī
Caracas, capital of Venezuela (Tw)
Kǎ sī tè lǐ
Castries, capital of Saint Lucia
Kǎ sī dì lì yà · Lái áng
Castilla-Leon, north Spanish province
Kǎ sēn chéng
Carson City, capital of Nevada
kǎ sǔn
clip
latch (on a clip-into-place component)
kǎ dùn
(computing) slow
unresponsive