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Chinese symbol for “click”

咔
kā
(onom.) click; snap; crack

The closest CC-CEDICT match for click is 咔 (kā), defined as: (onom.) click; snap; crack.

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Characters and stroke order

咔 kā
used in transliterations
radical 30 ⼝ · 8 strokes

Other Chinese words for “click”

WordPinyinMeaning
咔嗒kā dā(onom.) click
点击 (點擊)diǎn jīto hit; to press
喀哒 (喀噠)kā dā(onom.) click
单击 (單擊)dān jī(computing) to single-click; to click

Related words

Other words that share a character with 咔.

WordPinyinMeaning
咔嚓kā chā(onom.) breaking or snapping; (coll.) cut it out
咔哒 (咔噠)kā dāvariant of 咔嗒 (kā dā)
咔嗒kā dā(onom.) click
咔叽 (咔嘰)kǎ jīkhaki (loanword)
咔唑kǎ zuòcarbazole (chemistry) (loanword)
咔啦kǎ lācrispy, deep-fried (variant of 卡拉 (kǎ lā))

See also: Japanese symbol for “click”.

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.