巴士 (bā shì) — bus

Definition

noun
bus
Measure word ·

Examples

  • 巴士
    Zhè tàng bā shì měi bàn xiǎo shí fā yī bān.
    This bus departs every half hour.
  • 巴士
    Cóng jī chǎng dào shì qū kě yǐ zuò bā shì.
    You can take a bus from the airport to the city center.
  • 巴士
    bā shì Zhàn jiù zài chāo shì duì miàn.
    The bus stop is right across from the supermarket.

Origin

Characters in this word

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

Open 巴 →

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

The shape 士 comes from a simple drawing of a war axe. The character later came to mean a soldier, officer, or intellectual.

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