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Take a taxi in Chinese

to take a taxi · HSK 2

打车 dǎ chē

  1. 打 dǎ to hit
  2. 车 chē car

太晚了,我们打车回去吧。 It's too late, let's take a taxi back.

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How do you say take a taxi in Chinese?

Take a taxi in Chinese is 打车 (dǎ 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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