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车祸

chē huò

HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 車禍 Measure word 起

车祸 (chē huò) means "traffic accident; car crash". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 车祸 means

1. traffic accident; car crash

The characters in 车祸

• 车chēcar; vehicle; machine
• 祸huòdisaster; misfortune; calamity

Example sentences

• 他死于一场车祸。
  He lost his life in a traffic accident.
• 十字路口出了车祸。
  Shízì lùkǒu chū le chēhuò.
  There's been an accident at the crossroads.
• 车祸是怎么发生的？
  How did the car accident come about?
• 这个男人死于车祸。
  The man died in a car accident.
• 她儿子在车祸中丧生。
  Tā érzi zài chēhuò zhōng sàngshēng.
  Her son was killed in the accident.
• 我哥在车祸中受伤了。
  My brother was injured in the car accident.

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read chē huò correctly.
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