HSK 5 · Places

车库 chēkù “garage” in Chinese

Traditional 車庫

What 车库 means

  1. garage

How to say 车库

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale车chē1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale库kù4th tone, falling

车库 in a sentence

  1. 你有车库吗？

    Nǐ yǒu chēkù ma?

    Do you have a garage?

    Sentence #6098428 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  2. 我把它忘在车库里了。

    Wǒ bǎ tā wàng zài chēkù lǐ le.

    I forgot it in the garage.

    Sentence #847830 from Tatoeba

  3. 我把车库改造成工作室使用。

    Wǒ bǎ chēkù gǎizào chéng gōngzuòshì shǐyòng.

    I converted the garage into a workshop.

    Sentence #389398 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 车库 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 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.

The character 库 (kù) with each of its parts in a different colour
库kùwarehouse
  • 广shelter · guǎng
  • 车cart · chē

How to write 车库

车 4 strokes · 库 7 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

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

Words related to 车库

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汽车qìchē · car

Words with 库

仓库cāngkù · warehouse

More words: Places & Geography

当地dāngdì · local岛屿dǎoyǔ · islands大厦dàshà · large building地区dìqū · region周边zhōubiān · surrounding住宅zhùzhái · residence走廊zǒuláng · corridor祖国zǔguó · homeland

FAQs

车库 (chēkù) means “garage”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it chēkù: chē with a 1st tone, then kù with a 4th 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, 车库 is written 車庫. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type cheku with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 车库 from the suggestions. Typing cheku into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
车库 is an HSK 5 word in the 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.