HSK 5 · Transport

卡车 kǎchē “truck” in Chinese

Traditional 卡車

What 卡车 means

  1. truck

Measure word 辆 liàng · 一辆卡车 yí liàng kǎchē

How to say 卡车

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale卡kǎ3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale车chē1st tone, high and level

卡车 in a sentence

  1. 路中间有一辆卡车。

    Lù zhōngjiān yǒu yí liàng kǎchē.

    There’s a truck in the middle of the road.

    Sentence #487597 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我们租了辆卡车来运我们的家具。

    Wǒmen zū le liàng kǎchē lái yùn wǒmen de jiājù.

    We hired a truck to move our furniture.

    Sentence #884628 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 他移开，让卡车通过。

    Tā yíkāi, ràng kǎchē tōngguò.

    He moved aside to let the truck through.

    Sentence #333792 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 卡车 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 卡 (kǎ) with each of its parts in a different colour
卡kǎto stop
  • 上above · shǎng
  • 卜divination · bǔ

Memory aid上 (above) and 下 (below) squeezed into one: stuck in between, as in 卡住 (qiǎzhù) “stuck”, where it is read qiǎ. Read kǎ, it writes loanwords such as 卡车 (kǎchē) “truck” and 卡 “card”.

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 卡车

卡 5 strokes · 车 4 strokes

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

Words related to 卡车

Words with 卡

卡kǎ · card信用卡xìnyòngkǎ · credit card银行卡yínhángkǎ · bank card卡通kǎtōng · cartoon

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

More words: Everyday Things

车厢chēxiāng · carriage海关hǎiguān · customs (i.e. border crossing inspection)驾驶jiàshǐ · to drive救护车jiùhùchē · ambulance列车lièchē · train摩托车mótuōchē · motorbike汽油qìyóu · petrol时差shíchā · time difference

FAQs

卡车 (kǎchē) means “truck”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it kǎchē: kǎ with a 3rd 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, 卡车 is written 卡車. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 辆 (liàng). For example, one truck is 一辆卡车 (yí liàng kǎchē).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type kache with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 卡车 from the suggestions. Typing kache into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
卡车 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.