Contacts cannot be synced from iPhone to iCloud

Some existing and newly created contacts on the iPhone do not sync to iCloud but at the same time contacts created from iPad will appear quickly on the iPhone.
Why and how to fix it?

Thanks Randers4. You guess is right! The Default Account was set to On My iPhone. I'm sure I set it to iCloud and have no idea why and when it was changed to "On My iPhone".
Now, how can I identify all those contacts stored On My iPhone and move them to the Account iCloud?

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