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单车

dānchē

(coll.) bicycle; bike (esp. in Hong Kong, Taiwan and southern China and, more generally, used…

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

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(coll.) bicycle; bike (esp. in Hong Kong, Taiwan and southern China and, more generally, used across China to refer to a bike-share bicycle)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 单车 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 单车 appears in 9 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

他有一架单车。tā yǒu yī jià dān chē。

He has a bicycle.

他的单车撞上了栏杆。tā de dān chē zhuàng shàng le lán gān。

His bike ran into a guard-rail.

愚蠢骑着没有闸的单车。yú chǔn qí zhe méi yǒu zhá de dān chē。

Stupidity is riding a bike that doesn't have brakes.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 单车.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 单车.

Directly before

  • 踏单车3
  • 的单车2
  • 共享单车2
  • 一架单车1
  • 这台单车1

Directly after

  • 单车撞1
  • 单车上学1
  • 单车企业1
  • 单车应该1
  • 单车不好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

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What does 单车 mean in Chinese?

单车 (dānchē) means (coll.) bicycle; bike (esp. in Hong Kong, Taiwan and southern China and, more generally, used….

How do you pronounce 单车?

单车 is pronounced dānchē.

Is 单车 an HSK word?

单车 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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