卡米
Kǎ Mǐ · tones 3-3
Meaning: card + rice
Character breakdown
Each character in 卡米 on its own — radical, stroke count, and core meaning.
- 卡kǎ
- Radical
- 卜
- Strokes
- 5
- Meaning
- card, checkpoint
- 米mǐ
- Radical
- 米
- Strokes
- 6
- Meaning
- rice, meter
How it sounds
Tone pattern 3-3 (falling-rising + falling-rising).
Two falling-rising tones. In fast speech the first becomes rising (tone sandhi). Soft, low melody.
Style: transliteration-standard
A standard phonetic match for the English name (used in Chinese Bibles, news translations, official documents). Useful when you want clear English-to-Chinese identifiability.
Pairing with a surname
2-character given name
Standard structure for modern Chinese names. Pairs naturally with most common single-character surnames (王, 李, 张, 陈, 刘) for a 3-character full name. Always read the full name aloud with your surname before finalizing to check for accidental homophones.