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卡通

kǎ tōng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

卡通 (kǎ tōng) means "cartoon (loanword)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 卡通 means

1. cartoon (loanword)

The characters in 卡通

• 卡kǎto stop; to block; (computing; colloquial) slow
• 通tōngto go through; to know well; (suffix) expert

Example sentences

• 有人说电视上的卡通本身是有教育意义的。
  Yǒurén shuō diànshì shàng de kǎtōng běnshēn shì yǒu jiàoyù yìyì de.
  Some people say that cartoons on television are educational in themselves.
• 书桌上一叠专业书里有几本卡通书混在里面。
  Shūzhuō shàng yī dié zhuānyè shū lǐ yǒu jǐ běn kǎtōng shū hùn zài lǐmiàn.
  There were some graphic novels mixed into the pile of specialty books on the desk.

Words containing 卡通

• 一卡通Yī kǎ tōngthe name of various contactless smart cards, notably Yikatong…
• 萨斯卡通Sà sī kǎ tōngSaskatoon city, Saskatchewan, Canada

Where 卡通 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · jūn–kǎ (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read kǎ tōng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.