The tram leaves in 5 minutes.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
发车
departure (of a coach or train)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
departure (of a coach or train)
02
to dispatch a vehicle
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 发车 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 发车 appears in 8 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
This train leaves at nine o'clock.
How often do the buses depart?
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 发车.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 发车.
Directly before
- 三分钟发车1
- 九点钟发车1
- 点发车1
- 后要发车1
- 多久发车1
Directly after
- 发车一次1
- 发车表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 发车
What does 发车 mean in Chinese?
发车 (fāchē) means departure (of a coach or train).
How do you pronounce 发车?
发车 is pronounced fāchē.
Is 发车 an HSK word?
发车 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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