Character Details
| card | Ascii: 20219 | w158 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 卡 | kǎ | ka | 3 | 上 (up) + 下 (down) → card; stuck | 卡 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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When it comes to playing cards, the top (above) is usually just a silly pattern. What's below is the important part. | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK —] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - This is your key card | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 29 - 幺 | yāo | tiny | thread, tiny | twisted thread | 幼 幻 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 上 (up) + 下 (down) → card; stuck | 卜 (semantic origin) | 卡 (self‑phonetic) | loanword; no true phonetic | ||||||||