Chinese word dictionary

出租车

chūzūchē · taxi; (Tw) rental car

Practice word

Word information

Simplified出租车

Traditional出租車

Pinyinchūzūchē

Part of speech名

HSK 3.01

HSK 2.01

Character breakdown

Study each Hanzi separately, then return to the complete word so pronunciation, meaning, and movement stay connected.

出chū

to go out, to send out; stand; produce

租zū

to rent, to lease; tax, rent

车chē

cart, vehicle; to move in a cart

How to learn 出租车

Listen once without reading, repeat the pinyin with its tones, then write every character in sequence. Finally, recall the complete meaning instead of memorizing each character as an isolated translation.

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车chē

car; vehicle; CL:輛|辆[liang4]; machine; to shape with a lathe; Kangxi radical 159; surname Che

火车huǒchē

train; CL:列[lie4],節|节[jie2],班[ban1],趟[tang4]

开车kāichē

to drive a car (or train etc); (slang) to post sexual content online; to make a sexual joke

车站chēzhàn

rail station; bus stop; CL:處|处[chu4],個|个[ge4]

出chū

to go out; to come out; to arise; to occur; to produce; to yield; to go beyond; to exceed; (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result); classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc; variant of 出[chu1] (classifier for plays or chapters of classical novels)

出国chūguó

to go abroad; to leave the country