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  kaat1   jyutping
  ji1   pinyin
card (such as bank ~, credit ~, birthday ~, etc)

is the Cantonese loanword for "card"; the Mandarin loanword is .
noun
Stroke count: 9
Level: 2
Radical: (#30)

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

This word has been viewed 7260 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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detail  cim1 kaat1   = pay by card
detail  sing3 daan3 kaat1   = Christmas card
detail  kat1 pin3*2   = a business card; a namecard
detail  luk1 kaat1   = pay for things using a credit card
detail  seon3 jung6 kaat1   = credit card
detail  dut1 kaat1   = swipe a card
detail  kaat1 sou3  ji1 shu4 = credit card bills
detail  zung1 kaat1  zhong1 ji1 = time card; clock card
detail  man6 hau6 kaat1   = greetings card
detail  jau4 hei3 kaat1   = playing cards
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
detail audio 所有聖誕咭
Have you sent all of your Christmas cards yet?
detail 或者現金或者
Maybe I'll pay by cash, or maybe I'll pay by card.
[Lit. I maybe give cash maybe sign card]
detail
If you pay by card it'll be cheaper.
detail 現金
Paying by card is cheaper than using cash.
[Lit. sign card cheap than give cash]

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