火车
huǒ chē 3–1
train
- Characters
- 2
- 火 · 车
- Syllables
- 2
- huǒ chē
- Frequency
- Less common
- corpus count 2,791
Part of speech: n
Character by character
- 火huǒ4 strokesHSK 1fire, flame; burn; anger, rage
- 车chē4 strokesHSK 1 traditional 車cart, vehicle; carry in cart
Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.
Example sentences
火车来了!
Huǒ chē lái le
The train is arriving!
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Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 火车. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 车chēHSK 1
car; vehicle; machine; to shape with a lathe; Kangxi radical 159
- 汽车qì chēHSK 1
car; automobile; bus
- 火huǒHSK 3
fire; urgent; ammunition; fiery or flaming; internal heat (Chinese medicine); hot (popular); classifier for military units (old); Kangxi radical 86
- 车上chē shàngHSK 1
Car
- 开车kāi chēHSK 1
to drive a car
- 出租车chū zū chēHSK 2
taxi; (Tw) rental car
- 车辆chē liàngHSK 2
vehicle
- 火箭huǒ jiànHSK 6
rocket
- 停车tíng chēHSK 2
to pull up (stop one's vehicle); to park; (of a machine) to stop working; to stall
- 自行车zì xíng chēHSK 2
bicycle; bike
- 轿车jiào chēHSK 7
enclosed carriage for carrying passengers; motor carriage; car or bus; limousine
- 摩托车mó tuō chē
(loanword) motorbike; motorcycle
- 列车liè chēHSK 4
(railway) train
- 火灾huǒ zāiHSK 5
serious fire (in a city or a forest etc)
- 货车huò chēHSK 7
truck; van; freight wagon
- 车站chē zhànHSK 1
rail station; bus stop
- 车祸chē huòHSK 7
traffic accident; car crash
- 卡车kǎ chēHSK 7
truck
- 上车shàng chēHSK 1
to get on or into (a bus, train, car etc)
- 赛车sài chēHSK 7
auto race; cycle race; race car
- 停车场tíng chē chǎngHSK 2
parking lot; car park
- 车展chē zhǎnHSK 6
motor show
- 下车xià chēHSK 1
to get off or out of (a bus, train, car etc)
- 驾车jià chēHSK 7
to drive a vehicle