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车厢

chē xiāng

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 車廂 Measure word 节

车厢 (chē xiāng) means "carriage". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 车厢 means

1. carriage

The characters in 车厢

• 车chēcar; vehicle; machine
• 厢xiāngbox (in theater); side room; side

Example sentences

• 汤姆在车厢里找到玛丽的雨伞。
  Tāngmǔ zài chēxiāng lǐ zhǎodào Mǎlì de yǔsǎn.
  Tom found Mary's umbrella in the trunk of his car.
• 请小心月台与车厢之间的空隙。
  Qǐng xiǎoxīn yuètái yǔ chēxiāng zhījiān de kòngxì.
  Please mind the gap between the train and the platform.
• 火车的尾三节车厢损坏得很严重。
  Huǒchē de wěi sān jiē chēxiāng sǔnhuài dehěn yánzhòng.
  The last three coaches of the train were badly damaged.

Sounds the same

Read chē xiāng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 车箱variant of 车厢

Where 车厢 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Household, Kitchen & Daily Life (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read chē xiāng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.