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警察

jǐng chá 3–2

police; police officer

HSK level
HSK 3
HSK 2.0 level 4 · HSK 3.0 level 3
Characters
2
警 · 察
Syllables
2
jǐng chá
Frequency
Common
corpus count 1,128

Part of speech: n

Character by character

  • 警jǐng19 strokesHSK 3guard, watch; alert, alarm
  • 察chá14 strokesHSK 3examine, investigate; notice

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 警察在外面。

    Jǐng chá zài wài miàn

    The police are out there.

  • 我不是一名警察。

    Wǒ bù shì yī míng jǐng chá

    I'm not a policeman.

  • 为什么这有警察?

    Wèi shén me zhè yǒu jǐng chá

    Why are the police here?

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 警察. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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