HSK 3.0 Level 3 · Places

汽车 qìchē “car” in Chinese

Traditional 汽車

What 汽车 means

  1. car
  2. motor vehicle
  3. automobile
  4. bus

Measure word 辆 liàng · 一辆汽车 yí liàng qìchē

How to say 汽车

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale汽qì4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale车chē1st tone, high and level

汽车 in a sentence

  1. 父亲让我洗汽车。

    Fùqīn ràng wǒ xǐ qìchē.

    My father made me wash the car.

    Sentence #1415761 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 他有一辆蓝色的汽车。

    Tā yǒu yí liàng lánsè de qìchē.

    He has a blue car.

    Sentence #10740776 from Tatoeba

  3. 当你过马路的时候要当心汽车。

    Dāng nǐ guò mǎlù de shíhou yào dāngxīn qìchē.

    Watch out for cars when you cross the road.

    Sentence #874487 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 汽车 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 汽 (qì) with each of its parts in a different colour
汽qìsteam
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐ
  • 气air · qì

Memory aidWater 氵 turned into air 气: steam.

The character 车 (chē) with each of its parts in a different colour
车chēcar
  • 七seven · qī
  • 十ten · shí

Memory aidSimplified from 車: a cart seen from above, with its axle and two wheels.

How to write 汽车

汽 7 strokes · 车 4 strokes

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汽车 (qìchē) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 汽车 (qìchē). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 汽车

Words with 汽

公共汽车gōnggòng qìchē · bus汽油qìyóu · petrol

Words with 车

车chē · car火车huǒchē · train开车kāichē · to drive a car出租车chūzūchē · taxi车站chēzhàn · rail station打车dǎchē · to take a taxi (in town)火车站huǒchēzhàn · train station公交车gōngjiāochē · public transport vehicle公共汽车gōnggòng qìchē · bus自行车zìxíngchē · bike

More words: Places & Getting Around

网上wǎngshàng · online下去xiàqù · to go down走路zǒulù · to walk中zhōng · middle房子fángzi · house街jiē · street室shì · room北běi · north

FAQs

汽车 (qìchē) means “car” or “motor vehicle”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it qìchē: qì with a 4th tone, then chē with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 汽车 is written 汽車. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 辆 (liàng). For example, one car is 一辆汽车 (yí liàng qìchē).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type qiche with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 汽车 from the suggestions. Typing qiche into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
汽车 is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 4 word list. It is not on the older HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.