Word information
Simplified卡位
Traditional卡位
Pinyinkǎ wèi
Part of speechDictionary
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HSK 2.0Not listed
Chinese word dictionary
卡位
kǎ wèi · (sports) to jockey for position; (basketball) to box out; (commerce) to establish oneself in a competitive market (also pr. [qia3wei4]); booth seating
Character breakdown
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How to learn 卡位
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Words with the same characters
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位wèi
position; location; place; seat; classifier for people (honorific); classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes); (physics) potential
卡kǎto 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
信用卡xìnyòngkǎcredit card
银行卡yínhángkǎbank card
车位chēwèiparking spot; unloading point; garage place; stand for taxi
单位dānwèiunit (of measure); unit (group of people as a whole); work unit (place of employment, esp. in the PRC prior to economic reform); CL:個|个[ge4]