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Automobile in Chinese

automobile · HSK 3

汽车 qì chē

  1. 汽 qì steam
  2. 车 chē car

Counted with 辆: 一辆汽车 yí liàng qìchē

这辆汽车是新买的。 This car was just bought.

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How do you say automobile in Chinese?

Automobile in Chinese is 汽车 (qì chē).

Which word should I use?

Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.

Where do these words come from?

The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.

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