Chinese symbol for “calico”
卡利科
kǎ lì kē
calico (woven cloth from Caldicot, Kerala, India)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for calico is 卡利科 (kǎ lì kē), defined as: calico (woven cloth from Caldicot, Kerala, India).
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “calico”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 卡利科.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 信用卡 | xìn yòng kǎ | credit card |
| 卡拉 | kǎ lā | karaoke; (Tw) (of chicken etc) crispy, deep-fried |
| 卡车 (卡車) | kǎ chē | truck; 辆 (liàng) |
| 卡通 | kǎ tōng | cartoon (loanword) |
| 卡片 | kǎ piàn | card |
| 银行卡 (銀行卡) | yín háng kǎ | bank card |
| 利用 | lì yòng | to exploit; to make use of |
| 权利 (權利) | quán lì | right (i.e. an entitlement to sth); (classical) power and wealth |
| 科技 | kē jì | science and technology |
See also: Japanese symbol for “calico”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.