| 八达通卡 |
Bā dá tōng kǎ |
Octopus card (Hong Kong smart card for electronic payments) |
| 八 |
bā |
eight |
| 八达通 |
Bā dá tōng |
Octopus (Hong Kong smart card system for electronic payments) |
| 达 |
Dá |
surname Da |
| 达 |
dá |
to attain / to reach / to amount to / to communicate / eminent |
| 通 |
tōng |
to go through / to know well / (suffix) expert / to connect / to communicate / open / to clear / classifier for letters, telegrams, phone calls etc |
| 通 |
tòng |
classifier for an activity, taken in its entirety (tirade of abuse, stint of music playing, bout of drinking etc) |
| 卡 |
kǎ |
to stop / to block / (computing) (coll.) slow / (loanword) card / CL:张,片 / truck (from "car") / calorie (abbr. for 卡路里) / cassette |
| 卡 |
qiǎ |
to block / to be stuck / to be wedged / customs station / a clip / a fastener / a checkpost / Taiwan pr. [ka3] |