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咔

kǎ

Character

What 咔 means

1. (used as phonetic "ka")

Example sentences

• 门咔哒一声关上了。
  Mén kǎ dā yīshēng guānshàng le.
  The door clicked shut.
• 女巫抓住乐佩美丽的秀发，将它们在左手上绕两圈，右手拿起一把剪刀，咔嚓咔嚓，秀发被剪断了，漂亮的辫子散落在地上。
  The enchantress clutched Rapunzel's beautiful tresses, wrapped them twice round her left hand, seized a pair of scissors with the right, and snip, snap, they were cut off, and the lovely braids lay on the ground.

Words starting with 咔

• 咔嚓kā chā(onomatopoeia) breaking or snapping; (colloquial) cut it out; stop it
• 咔啦kǎ lācrispy, deep-fried (variant of 卡拉
• 咔嗒kā dā(onomatopoeia) click; clatter
• 咔叽kǎ jīkhaki (loanword)
• 咔哒声kǎ da shēng(onomatopoeia) clunk
• 咔唑kǎ zuòcarbazole (chemistry) (loanword)

Characters that look like 咔

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 昨zuóyesterday
• 吵chǎoto quarrel; to make a noise; noisy
• 呻shēn(literary) to recite; to chant; to intone; (bound form) groan
• 咋zǎdialectal equivalent of 怎么; Taiwan pr. zé
• 峙zhì(literary) to tower aloft
• 咛níngto enjoin

Sounds the same

Read kǎ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 卡to stop; to block; (computing; colloquial) slow
• 鉲(chemistry) cadmium (old); (Taiwan) californium
• 胩carbylamine; isocyanide
• 佧ancient name for an ethnic group in China