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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 卡拉

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
卡拉 kǎ lā - Kara, city in northern Togo 多哥[Duo1 ge1]
- Cara, Karla etc (name)
卡拉 kǎ lā - karaoke
- (Tw) (of chicken etc) crispy, deep-fried

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - 4,538 11,112 12,981

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
- to stop
- to block
- (computing) (coll.) slow
- (loanword) card
- CL:張|张[zhang1],片[pian4]
- truck (from "car")
- calorie (abbr. for 卡路里[ka3 lu4 li3])
- cassette
qiǎ- to block
- to be stuck
- to be wedged
- customs station
- a clip
- a fastener
- a checkpost
- Taiwan pr. [ka3]
- to pull
- to play (a bowed instrument)
- to drag
- to draw
- to chat
- (coll.) to empty one's bowels
- to make a cut in (sth); to slit; to gash; to slash
- used in 拉拉蛄[la4la4gu3]
- variant of 落[la4]

Other Words Containing 卡拉

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
卡拉 - - 4,538 11,112 12,981
卡拉奇 - - 24,200 37,453 90,003
安卡拉 - - 60,546 54,634 93,272
卡拉季奇 - - 62,455 69,164 -
卡拉布里亚 - - 68,095 - -
卡拉卡斯 - - 83,469 - -