Word and Radical Components of 卡车

The Chinese word 卡车 is analysed below into its constituent words and the words into radicals. By seeing the breakdown of the word in this way you can more easily learn and recognise the word.

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
卡车		1. Simplified form of 卡車

卡车 ⇨ 卡 + 车

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
卡	kǎ, qiǎ	1. to wedge; to get stuck; to be jammed; to become tightly wedged
		魚刺卡在喉嚨裡。 - A fishbone is stuck in the throat.
		2. to clip; to fasten
		3. to scrag; to choke
		歹徒卡住他的脖子。 - The ruffian wrung his neck.
		4. (computing) to freeze up; to buffer; to stop loading; to lag
		卡在奇怪的地方 - it stopped (loading) at a strange frame
		5. (computing) laggy; slow; not responding
		6. pin; fastener
		髮卡qiǎ - hairpin
		7. checkpoint; checkpost
		8. (Gan) fishbone
		Qia
	kǎ	9. card
		卡片 - card
		記憶卡 - memory card
		賀卡 - celebration card
		刷卡 - to swipe one's card
		碌卡kaat1 - to swipe one's card
		電話卡 - phone card
	kǎ	10. Short for 卡路里
	kǎ	11. truck; lorry
		12. railcar
		九卡kaa1 列lit6車 - nine-car train
	kǎ	13. Short for 卡式 (cassette)
		卡帶 - cassette
		雙卡錄音機 - dual cassette recorder
		14. (Hong Kong) carat (unit of weight equivalent to 200 milligrams)
	kǎ	15. (zh-used2, t)
车		1. Variant of 車
车		2. Variant of 卓

卡 ⇨ 上 + 卜

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
上	shàng	1. (music) Kunqu gongche notation for the note do (1).
		2. (music) Cantonese opera gongche notation for the note do (1).
		3. Variant of 緔
		4. Variant of 鞝
卜	bǔ	1. divination
		2. to divine
		3. (literary) to foretell; to predict
		生死未卜 - no one knows whether the person is dead of alive
		4. (literary) to choose
		卜居 - to choose a place to live
		5. Simplified form of 蔔
		6. Variant of 欲

车 ⇨ 一 + + 十

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
一	一	1. one
		一長一短 - yī cháng yī duǎn - one short and one long
		一死一傷 - yī sǐ yī shāng - one dead, one injured
		一高一低 - yī gāo yī dī - one high and one low
		一天一夜 - yī tiān yī yè - one day and one night
		一日一夜 - jat1 jat6 jat1 je6 - one day and one night, C
		一左一右 - yī zuǒ yī yòu - one left, one right
		2. each; every
		給他們一人一顆蘋果。 (Gěi tā men yī rén yī kē píngguǒ.) - Give them an apple each.
		3. single; alone
		獨自一人 - dúzì yī rén - a solitary person, one person
		專一 - zhuānyī - single-minded, monogamous
		4. whole; entire; all: throughout
		他們在海灘上玩了一下午。 (Tāmen zài hǎitān shàng wán le yī xiàwǔ.) - They played the whole afternoon on the beach.
		5. same; identical
		大小不一 - dàxiǎo bùyī - not having the same size
		大細不一 - daai6 sai3 bat1 jat1 - not having the same size, C
		6. (classical) another; alternative
		蟋蟀，一名促織。 (Xīshuài, yī míng cùzhī.) - Crickets, also called cùzhī lit. another name being cùzhī.
		7. (formal) certain aforementioned
		「旋律」一詞中的「旋」字 - “xuánlǜ” yī cí zhōng de “xuán” zì - the character (m-lite, zh, sc=Hani, 旋) within the word m-lite, zh, sc=Hani, 旋律
		8. With the verb modified reduplicated, expressing the transience of the verb:
		9. Indicating that the action has occurred only once
		10. 看一看 - kàn yī kàn - to have a look
		11. 望一望 - mong6 jat1 mong6 - to have a look, C
		12. Indicating the intention to try
		13. 算一算 - suàn yī suàn - to try to calculate it
		14. 計一計 - gai3 jat1 gai3 - to try to calculate it, C
		15. once; as soon as; upon
		一到 OP 就卡。 (Yī dào OP jiù kǎ.) - It slows down once I get to the opening.
		我一拍了照片，她就立即成為眾人矚目的焦點。 (Wǒ yī pāi le zhàopiàn, tā jiù lìjí chéngwèi zhòngrén zhǔmù de jiāodiǎn.) - As soon as I took a picture, she ran towards the limelight.
		一見如故 - yījiànrúgù - to hit it off
		一至於此 - yīzhìyúcǐ - How did things ever get so far?
		16. (gay slang) top
		一號 - yīhào - a top
		17. (Cantonese, argot, euphemistic) to die
		18. =====Usage notes=====
	yī	19. (music) Kunqu gongche notation for the note low ti (7̣).
		20. one
		21. each; every
		22. whole; entire; all
	yíeijing dialect	23. (Beijing) one
		24. =====Usage notes=====
		1.
十	shí	1. ten
		2. (figurative) topmost; utmost
		十分 - very
		十全十美 - perfect

上 ⇨ 卜 + 一

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
卜	bǔ	1. divination
		2. to divine
		3. (literary) to foretell; to predict
		生死未卜 - no one knows whether the person is dead of alive
		4. (literary) to choose
		卜居 - to choose a place to live
		5. Simplified form of 蔔
		6. Variant of 欲
一	一	1. one
		一長一短 - yī cháng yī duǎn - one short and one long
		一死一傷 - yī sǐ yī shāng - one dead, one injured
		一高一低 - yī gāo yī dī - one high and one low
		一天一夜 - yī tiān yī yè - one day and one night
		一日一夜 - jat1 jat6 jat1 je6 - one day and one night, C
		一左一右 - yī zuǒ yī yòu - one left, one right
		2. each; every
		給他們一人一顆蘋果。 (Gěi tā men yī rén yī kē píngguǒ.) - Give them an apple each.
		3. single; alone
		獨自一人 - dúzì yī rén - a solitary person, one person
		專一 - zhuānyī - single-minded, monogamous
		4. whole; entire; all: throughout
		他們在海灘上玩了一下午。 (Tāmen zài hǎitān shàng wán le yī xiàwǔ.) - They played the whole afternoon on the beach.
		5. same; identical
		大小不一 - dàxiǎo bùyī - not having the same size
		大細不一 - daai6 sai3 bat1 jat1 - not having the same size, C
		6. (classical) another; alternative
		蟋蟀，一名促織。 (Xīshuài, yī míng cùzhī.) - Crickets, also called cùzhī lit. another name being cùzhī.
		7. (formal) certain aforementioned
		「旋律」一詞中的「旋」字 - “xuánlǜ” yī cí zhōng de “xuán” zì - the character (m-lite, zh, sc=Hani, 旋) within the word m-lite, zh, sc=Hani, 旋律
		8. With the verb modified reduplicated, expressing the transience of the verb:
		9. Indicating that the action has occurred only once
		10. 看一看 - kàn yī kàn - to have a look
		11. 望一望 - mong6 jat1 mong6 - to have a look, C
		12. Indicating the intention to try
		13. 算一算 - suàn yī suàn - to try to calculate it
		14. 計一計 - gai3 jat1 gai3 - to try to calculate it, C
		15. once; as soon as; upon
		一到 OP 就卡。 (Yī dào OP jiù kǎ.) - It slows down once I get to the opening.
		我一拍了照片，她就立即成為眾人矚目的焦點。 (Wǒ yī pāi le zhàopiàn, tā jiù lìjí chéngwèi zhòngrén zhǔmù de jiāodiǎn.) - As soon as I took a picture, she ran towards the limelight.
		一見如故 - yījiànrúgù - to hit it off
		一至於此 - yīzhìyúcǐ - How did things ever get so far?
		16. (gay slang) top
		一號 - yīhào - a top
		17. (Cantonese, argot, euphemistic) to die
		18. =====Usage notes=====
	yī	19. (music) Kunqu gongche notation for the note low ti (7̣).
		20. one
		21. each; every
		22. whole; entire; all
	yíeijing dialect	23. (Beijing) one
		24. =====Usage notes=====