Traffic police in Chinese
traffic police (short for 交通警察) · HSK 4
交警
- 交 to hand over
- 警 police
Counted with 名: 一名交警
路口有个交警在指挥交通。 There's a traffic officer directing traffic at the intersection.
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How do you say traffic police in Chinese?
Traffic police in Chinese is 交警 (jiāo jǐng).
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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