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卡哇伊

kǎ wā yī

3-character word

What 卡哇伊 means

1. cute
2. adorable
3. charming (loanword from Japanese)

The characters in 卡哇伊

• 卡kǎto stop; to block; (computing; colloquial) slow
• 哇wāWow!; sound of a child's crying; sound of vomiting
• 伊yī(old) third person singular pronoun ("he" or "she")…

Sounds the same

Read kǎ wā yī, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 卡哇依variant of 卡哇伊

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