Chinese symbol for “calorie”
卡路里
kǎ lù lǐ
(loanword) calorie
The closest CC-CEDICT match for calorie is 卡路里 (kǎ lù lǐ), defined as: (loanword) calorie.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 卡路里.
| 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 |
| 铁路 (鐵路) | tiě lù | railroad; railway |
| 道路 | dào lù | road; path |
| 这里 (這裏) | zhè lǐ | variant of 这里 (zhè lǐ) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “calorie”.
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.