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乘坐

chéng zuò

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word

乘坐 (chéng zuò) means "to ride/travel by (vehicle)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 乘坐 means

1. to take (a ship, plane etc); to ride (in a train or other vehicle)

The characters in 乘坐

• 乘chéngto ride; to mount; to make use of
• 坐zuòto sit; to take a seat; to take (a bus, airplane etc)

Example sentences

• 我从来没乘坐船。
  Wǒ cóngláiméi chéngzuò chuán.
  I've never been on a ship.
• 我喜欢乘坐火车。
  I like to ride on trains.
• 在9号站台乘坐快车。
  Zài jiǔ hào zhàntái chéngzuò kuàichē.
  Take the express train from platform 9.
• 我的儿子每次乘坐公交车都会晕车。
  Wǒ de érzi měicì chéngzuò gōngjiāochē dōu huì yùnchē.
  My son always gets sick when he rides a bus.
• 在乘坐扶梯时，请握住扶手，并站在黄线内。
  When using the escalator, please hold the handrail and stand within the yellow line.
• 被判严重违反新的行为准则的青少年将失去免费乘坐公交车的权利，如果想重新取得必须做无报酬的社区工作。
  Bèi pàn yánzhòng wéifǎn xīn de xíngwéizhǔnzé de qīngshàonián jiāng shīqù miǎnfèi chéngzuò gōngjiāochē de quánlì, rúguǒ xiǎng chóngxīn qǔdé bìxū zuò wú bàochou de shèqū gōngzuò.
  Youths who are caught violating the new rules on behaviour will lose their right to free travel, and will have to complete unpaid community work to earn it back.

Sounds the same

Read chéng zuò, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 承做to undertake; to take on (i.e. to accept a task)

Where 乘坐 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Travel logistics & transport (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read chéng zuò correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.