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Public bus in Chinese

public bus · HSK 2

公交车 gōng jiāo chē

  1. 公 gōng public
  2. 交 jiāo to hand over
  3. 车 chē car

Counted with 辆: 一辆公交车 yí liàng gōngjiāochē

我们坐公交车去吧。 Let's take the bus there.

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How do you say public bus in Chinese?

Public bus in Chinese is 公交车 (gōng jiāo 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.

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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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