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站台

zhàn tái

HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 站臺

站台 (zhàn tái) means "platform (at a railway station); (Tw) (of an influential person) to publicly lend one's support (e.g. for an e". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 站台 means

1. platform (at a railway station)
2. Taiwan(of an influential person) to publicly endorse or campaign for (a candidate)
3. Taiwan(dated) website

The characters in 站台

• 站zhànstation; to stand; to halt
• 台tái(classical) you (in letters); variant of 台

Example sentences

• 在9号站台乘坐快车。
  Zài jiǔ hào zhàntái chéngzuò kuàichē.
  Take the express train from platform 9.
• 他的火车从十号站台发车。
  Tā de huǒchē cóng shí hào zhàn tái fāchē.
  His train is departing from platform 10.
• 这班火车会到达5号站台。
  The train arrives at platform number 5.
• 去伯明翰的火车从3号站台出发。
  Qù Bómínghàn de huǒchē cóng 3 hào zhàntái chūfā.
  The train for Birmingham leaves from platform 3.
• 汤姆站在威斯敏斯特地铁站的站台上。
  Tāngmǔ zhàn zài Wēisīmǐnsītè dìtiězhàn de zhàntái shàng.
  Tom stood on the platform in Westminster Underground Station.

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