HSK 3 · Education, Work

司机 sījī “driver” in Chinese

Traditional 司機

What 司机 means

  1. driver
  2. chauffeur

How to say 司机

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale司sī1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale机jī1st tone, high and level

司机 in a sentence

  1. 她是出租车司机吗？

    Tā shì chūzūchē sījī ma?

    Is she a taxi driver?

    Sentence #8511483 from Tatoeba

  2. 司机应该遵守交通规则。

    Sījī yīnggāi zūnshǒu jiāotōng guīzé.

    Drivers should obey the road rules.

    Sentence #424522 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 他们都不是司机。

    Tāmen dōu bú shì sījī.

    None of them are drivers.

    Sentence #1216085 from Tatoeba

How 司机 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 司 (sī) drawn as one shape
司sīto take charge of

司 is a single shape of 5 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

The character 机 (jī) with each of its parts in a different colour
机jīmachine; mechanism
  • 木tree · mù
  • 几table · jī

Memory aidA small table 几 made of wood 木: a machine. 几 (jī) also gives the sound.

How to write 司机

司 5 strokes · 机 6 strokes

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

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

Words related to 司机

Words with 司

公司gōngsī · company司法sīfǎ · judicial司令sīlìng · commander打官司dǎguānsi · to go to court

Words with 机

飞机fēijī · aeroplane机场jīchǎng · airport手机shǒujī · mobile phone机票jīpiào · air ticket机会jīhuì · opportunity相机xiàngjī · camera耳机ěrjī · headphones关机guānjī · to turn off (a device)开机kāijī · to switch on (a device)照相机zhàoxiàngjī · camera

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FAQs

司机 (sījī) means “driver” or “chauffeur”. It is an HSK 3 word.
Say it sījī: sī with a 1st tone, then jī 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, 司机 is written 司機. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type siji with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 司机 from the suggestions. Typing siji into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
司机 is an HSK 3 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.