WordTaiwan frequency #3,919
奧斯卡
ㄠˋ ㄙ ㄎㄚˇ
“Oscar (Academy Award); the annual American film award; (name) Oscar”
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奧
ㄠˋ
Mysterious; obscure; profound; the southwest corner of a room; deep inner part of a house; abbreviation for Austria or the Olympics.
斯
ㄙ
This; here; thus; such; emphatic particle; phonetic character used in transliterations; archaic pronoun for 'this' or 'here'; archaic adverb for 'all'; archaic conjunction for 'then'.
卡
ㄎㄚˇ
To be stuck or blocked; a card (loanword); a checkpoint or customs station; abbr. for calorie.
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- 俄羅斯ㄜˊ ㄌㄨㄛˊ ㄙRussia; a country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia.
- 奧運ㄠˋ ㄩㄣˋthe Olympics; Olympic Games; the Olympic Games
- 卡通ㄎㄚˇ ㄊㄨㄥcartoon; animated film or comic; a humorous or satirical drawing.
- 信用卡ㄒㄧㄣˋ ㄩㄥˋ ㄎㄚˇcredit card; a plastic payment card with a set credit limit; issued after a credit check; allows cashless purchases up to the limit; balance can be paid in full or partially rolled over with interest.
- 卡片ㄎㄚˇ ㄆㄧㄢˋa card; a stiff piece of paper or thin cardboard used for data processing or record-keeping; a greeting card or postcard containing text or images, such as a birthday or holiday card
- 詹姆斯ㄓㄢ ㄇㄨˇ ㄙJames (given name or surname); LeBron James (1984–), American NBA basketball player.
- 瓦斯ㄨㄚˇ ㄙgas (loanword); flammable gas such as coal gas or natural gas; in military contexts, poison gas.
- 卡車ㄎㄚˇ ㄔㄜtruck; a four-wheeled or more vehicle used for carrying goods; in Taiwan, often classified by weight: over 3500 kg as a large truck, under 3500 kg as a small truck.
- 福爾摩斯ㄈㄨˊ ㄦˇ ㄇㄛˊ ㄙSherlock Holmes, the fictional detective created by Arthur Conan Doyle; a brilliant detective known for solving cases through logic and deduction; used figuratively for any highly skilled detective or investigator.
- 關卡ㄍㄨㄢ ㄎㄚˇcheckpoint for inspection, security, or customs; a barrier or hurdle; a critical stage or turning point; in stocks, a price level where supply and demand shift, making it hard to break through.
- 貝斯ㄅㄟˋ ㄙbass (especially the bass guitar); Bes, a minor god of ancient Egypt
- 打卡ㄉㄚˇ ㄎㄚˇto clock in or out at work; to punch a time card; (on social media) to check in at a location