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Large bus in Chinese

large bus · HSK 4

大巴 dà bā

  1. 大 dà big
  2. 巴 bā to hope earnestly

Counted with 辆: 一辆大巴 yí liàng dàbā

我们坐大巴去机场。 We're taking a coach to the airport.

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How do you say large bus in Chinese?

Large bus in Chinese is 大巴 (dà bā).

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.

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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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