I don't go to school by bus.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
公交
public transportation
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
public transportation
02
mass transit
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 公交 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 公交 appears in 8 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
How can I get to the hospital by bus?
London is such a large city that visitors must use buses and the underground railway to get about.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 公交.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 公交.
Directly before
- 乘公交3
- 坐公交2
- 首都公交1
- 一路公交1
- 等公交1
Directly after
- 公交去2
- 公交上1
- 公交或1
- 公交回家1
- 公交上学1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 公交
What does 公交 mean in Chinese?
公交 (gōngjiāo) means public transportation.
How do you pronounce 公交?
公交 is pronounced gōngjiāo.
Is 公交 an HSK word?
公交 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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