咭 (kaat1 | ji1) : card

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咭

kaat1

ji1

card (such as bank ~, credit ~, birthday ~, etc)

咭 is the Cantonese loanword for "card"; the Mandarin loanword is 卡.

Stroke count: 9

Level: 2

Radical: 口 (#30)

This character is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. 粵

咭

This word has been viewed 8853 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 21st Jan 2014 03:36

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簽咭 cim1 kaat1 = pay by card 粵

聖誕咭 sing3 daan3 kaat1 = Christmas card 粵

咭片 kat1 pin3*2 = a business card; a namecard 粵

碌咭 luk1 kaat1 = pay for things using a credit card 粵

信用咭 seon3 jung6 kaat1 = credit card 粵

嘟咭 dut1 kaat1 = swipe a card 粵

咭數 kaat1 sou3 ji1 shu4 = credit card bills 粵

鐘咭 zung1 kaat1 zhong1 ji1 = time card; clock card 粵

問候咭 man6 hau6 kaat1 = greetings card 粵

遊戲咭 jau4 hei3 kaat1 = playing cards 粵
See all 37 compounds (CantoDict reports 36 compounds in total, which would seem to be an error - please report this on the CantoDict forum)

Showing all 4 examples containing 咭

你寄晒所有聖誕咭未呀？粵
Have you sent all of your Christmas cards yet?

我或者畀現金或者簽咭。粵
Ｍaybe I'll pay by cash, or maybe I'll pay by card.
[Lit. I maybe give cash maybe sign card]

簽咭就平啲。粵
If you pay by card it'll be cheaper.

簽咭平過畀現金。粵
Paying by card is cheaper than using cash.
[Lit. sign card cheap than give cash]

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國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese.
粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

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Decimal representation of this word: 咭
Unicode code for this character: U+54ad (off-site link)

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