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斑马线

bān mǎ xiàn

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 3-character word Traditional 斑馬線

斑马线 (bān mǎ xiàn) means "crosswalk; zebra crossing". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 斑马线 means

1. crosswalk
2. zebra crossing

The characters in 斑马线

• 斑bānspot; colored patch; stripe
• 马mǎhorse; horse or cavalry piece in Chinese chess; knight in Western chess
• 线xiànthread; string; wire

Example sentences

• 红绿灯变红的时候，我刚好在斑马线上滑倒了。
  I slipped and fell on the crosswalk, just when the light turned red.
• 信号灯变红的时候，我刚好在斑马线上滑倒了。
  I slipped and fell on the crosswalk, just when the light turned red.

Sounds the same

Read bān mǎ xiàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 班玛县Banma, a county in Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 果洛藏族自治州

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read bān mǎ xiàn correctly.
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