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车厢 (chē xiāng) — train carriage, railroad car

Definition

One car or compartment of a train. 客车 can mean a passenger train as a whole; 车厢 is one car within it. 舱 is the cabin of a ship or plane, not a train.

noun
train carriagerailroad car
Measure word · 节

Examples

  • 车厢，。
    Wǒ mǎi de shì wǔ hào chē xiāng, kào chuāng hu de zuò wèi.
    I bought seat number five carriage, next to the window.
  • 车厢。
    Zhè jié chē xiāng yǐ jīng zuò mǎn le rén.
    This carriage is already full of people.
  • 车厢。
    Nǐ bāng wǒ bǎ xíng li xiāng fàng dào chē xiāng de xíng li jià shàng.
    Help me put the suitcase on the luggage rack of the carriage.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

车chēvehicle
厢xiāngcompartment

The first part names a vehicle, and the second names a compartment, so together they mean the space inside a train car.

Characters in this word

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

This origin belongs to the traditional form 車; 车 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 車 was drawn as a carriage seen from above, with wheels on both sides and a shaft at the front; the simplified 车 is a later shorthand.

Open 车 →

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

Open 厢 →
Appears in
HSK 3.0 Level 5HSK 2.0 Level 5Trains & Transit

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