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打车

dǎ chē 3–1

to take a taxi (in town); to hitch a lift

  • HSK 1in the HSK listsHSK 3.0 level 1
  • 2characters打 · 车
  • 2syllablesdǎ chē
  • Rarehow common it iscorpus count 15,698

Part of speech: v

Character by character

  • 打dǎ5 strokesHSK 1strike, hit, beat; fight; attack
  • 车chē4 strokesHSK 1traditional 車cart, vehicle; carry in cart

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

Example sentences

  • 我尽量坐地铁，少打车。

    I take the subway as much as I can and use taxis less.

    from a graded reading →

  • 后来我把每个月的花费写下来，才发现最花钱的不是房租，而是外卖和打车。

    Later I wrote down what I spent each month and realised the biggest cost was not rent but takeaway food and taxis.

    from a graded reading →

Corpus sentences come from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community. Sentences marked “from a graded reading” are written for NihaoLearn and read by our own recording.

Words with the same characters

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

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