Sentence #5097675 from Tatoeba · translation adapted
How 车站 is built
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车chēcar
七seven · qī
十ten · shí
Memory aidSimplified from 車: a cart seen from above, with its axle and two wheels.
站zhànstation
立stand · lìMeaning part
占to divine · zhānSound part
立 hints at the meaning (stand); 占 (zhān) hints at the sound. Compare it with zhàn.
How to write 车站
车 4 strokes · 站 10 strokes
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Stroke order chart for 车站 (chēzhàn). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.
车站 (chēzhàn) means “rail station” or “bus stop”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 2 word.
Say it chēzhàn: chē with a 1st tone, then zhàn 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, 车站 is written 車站. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 处 (chù) or 个 (gè). For example, one rail station is 一处车站 (yí chù chēzhàn).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type chezhan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 车站 from the suggestions. Typing chezhan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
车站 is an HSK 3.0 Level 2 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 2 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.
车chē1st tone, high and level
站zhàn4th tone, falling
