HSK 3 · Transport

自行车 zìxíngchē “bike” in Chinese

Traditional 自行車

What 自行车 means

  1. bike
  2. bicycle

Measure word 辆 liàng · 一辆自行车 yí liàng zìxíngchē

How to say 自行车

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale自zì4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale行xíng2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale车chē1st tone, high and level

自行车 in a sentence

  1. 我骑自行车去工作。

    Wǒ qí zìxíngchē qù gōngzuò.

    I ride my bike to work.

    Sentence #2364534 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 这是你的自行车吗？

    Zhè shì nǐ de zìxíngchē ma?

    Is this your bicycle?

    Sentence #400814 from Tatoeba

  3. 我能借一下您的自行车吗？

    Wǒ néng jiè yíxià nín de zìxíngchē ma?

    May I borrow your bike?

    Sentence #846692 from Tatoeba

How 自行车 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 自 (zì) drawn as one shape
自zìself; oneself

自 is a single shape of 6 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

Memory aidDrawn from a nose. The usual explanation is that people point to their nose to mean “me”, so it came to mean “self”.

The character 行 (háng) with each of its parts in a different colour
行xíngto walk; to go; to travel
  • 彳step · chì
  • 亍to take small steps · chù

Memory aidDrawn from a crossroads: to walk, to go. It also means a row or line (háng).

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 自行车

自 6 strokes · 行 6 strokes · 车 4 strokes

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

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

Words related to 自行车

Words with 自

自己zìjǐ · oneself自zì · from来自láizì · to come from (a place)自信zìxìn · to have confidence in oneself自然zìrán · nature自觉zìjué · conscious自私zìsī · selfish自由zìyóu · freedom自愿zìyuàn · voluntary自豪zìháo · proud (of an achievement)

Words with 行

银行yínháng · bank不行bùxíng · won’t do行李xíngli · luggage行李箱xínglǐxiāng · trunk银行卡yínhángkǎ · bank card行xíng · OK进行jìnxíng · to advance流行liúxíng · popular举行jǔxíng · to hold (a meeting旅行lǚxíng · to travel

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

意思yìsi · meaning船chuán · a boat护照hùzhào · passport辆liàng · mw for vehicles冰箱bīngxiāng · refrigerator层céng · mw for layers灯dēng · lamp电子邮件diànzǐ yóujiàn · email

FAQs

自行车 (zìxíngchē) means “bike” or “bicycle”. It is an HSK 3 word.
Say it zìxíngchē: zì with a 4th tone, then xíng with a 2nd 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, 自行车 is written 自行車. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 辆 (liàng). For example, one bike is 一辆自行车 (yí liàng zìxíngchē).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zixingche with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 自行车 from the suggestions. Typing zixingche into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
自行车 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.