Don't miss the bus.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
公车
bus
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
bus
02
car belonging to an organization and used by its members (government car, police car, company car etc)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 公车 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 公车 appears in 54 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I stood waiting for a bus.
How much is the bus fare?
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 公车.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 公车.
Directly before
- 这辆公车8
- 一班公车7
- 的公车5
- 错过公车3
- 了公车3
Directly after
- 公车去3
- 公车票价2
- 公车客满2
- 公车来2
- 公车司机2
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 公车
What does 公车 mean in Chinese?
公车 (gōngchē) means bus.
How do you pronounce 公车?
公车 is pronounced gōngchē.
Is 公车 an HSK word?
公车 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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