Chinese symbol for “karaoke”
卡拉
kǎ lā
karaoke; (Tw) (of chicken etc) crispy, deep-fried
The closest CC-CEDICT match for karaoke is 卡拉 (kǎ lā), defined as: karaoke; (Tw) (of chicken etc) crispy, deep-fried.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 卡拉.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 信用卡 | xìn yòng kǎ | credit card |
| 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 |
| 阿拉 | ā lā | (Wu dialect) I; me; my; we; us; our |
| 克拉 | kè lā | carat (mass) (loanword) |
| 拉丁 | lā dīng | Latin; (in former times) to press-gang |
See also: Japanese symbol for “karaoke”.
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.