边卡

邊卡
biānqiǎ
noun

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 border checkpoint
  2. 2 frontier post

Examples

Zǒusī fènzǐ bèi biānqiǎ de jǐngchá lánjié.
The smugglers were intercepted by police at the border checkpoint.
Zhè tiáo gōnglù tōngwǎng Zhōng-Yuè biānqiǎ.
This road leads to the China-Vietnam border checkpoint.

Tips

mistakes
The here reads qiǎ (third tone), not the more familiar kǎ ('card'). The qiǎ reading means 'to wedge/block' — and it's the same one in 关卡 (guānqiǎ, checkpoint) and 卡住 (qiǎzhù, get stuck).

Stroke Order

biān