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辆

liàng

Old HSK 3 HSK 3.0 character level 3 Character Traditional 輛

辆 (liàng) means "classifier for vehicles". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was HSK 3 in the old six-level list.

What 辆 means

1. classifier for vehicles

How 辆 is used in grammar

辆 is a grammar word. Each link goes to its own section: what it does in that pattern, the structure, three example sentences with pinyin, and the mistake to avoid.

• New Classifiers: 把, 双, 台, 张, 种, 辆 (HSK 3)

The official HSK 3.0 grammar outline lists it at level 3, measure words (名量词).

Example sentences

• 他有辆车。
  He has a car.
• 我有一辆车。
  I have a car.
• 我有两辆车。
  I have two cars.
• 跟上那辆车。
  Follow that car.
• 他买了辆车。
  He bought a car.
• 我有辆新车。
  I have a new car.

Words containing 辆

• 车辆chē liàngvehicle
• 机动车辆jī dòng chē liàngmotor vehicle
• 装甲车辆zhuāng jiǎ chē liàngarmored vehicles

Characters that look like 辆

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 秘mìsecret; secretary
• 酗xùdrunk
• 桐tóngtree name (variously Paulownia, Firmiana or Aleurites)
• 栩xǔused in 栩栩; jolcham oak (Quercus serrata)
• 徜chángsit cross-legged; walk back and forth
• 翎língtail feathers; plume

Sounds the same

Read liàng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 量capacity; quantity; amount
• 亮bright; light; to shine; to flash; loud and clear
• 谅to show understanding; to excuse; to presume
• 晾to dry in the air; (fig.) to cold-shoulder
• 靓attractive; good-looking
• 凉to let sth cool down
• 喨used in 嘹喨
• 悢(literary) sad; melancholy
• 踉used in 踉跄
• 倞distant; to seek; old variant of 亮

Where 辆 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Travel & Transport (HSK 3), HSK 3 Characters · Set 25 (HSK 3), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 3 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read liàng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.