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公交车

gōng jiāo chē

HSK 3.0 level 2 3-character word Traditional 公交車 Measure word 辆

公交车 (gōng jiāo chē) means "public bus". It is an HSK 3.0 level 2 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 公交车 means

1. public transport vehicle
2. town bus

The characters in 公交车

• 公gōngpublic; collectively owned; common
• 交jiāoto hand over; to deliver; to pay (money); to turn over; to make friends…
• 车chēcar; vehicle; machine

Example sentences

• 公交车来了。
  Here comes the bus.
• 乘公交车费时。
  Chéng gōngjiāochē fèishí.
  The bus will take time.
• 公交车迟到了。
  The bus was behind schedule.
• 我害怕公交车。
  I'm afraid of the bus.
• 公交车在这儿停吗？
  Does the bus stop here?
• 保罗坐错了公交车。
  Paul got on the wrong bus.

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