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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

巴士

bāshì

bus (loanword)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

bus (loanword)

02

motor coach

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 巴士 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 巴士 appears in 55 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

巴士还没来。bā shì hái méi lái。

The bus hasn't come yet.

我能在哪里乘上机场巴士?wǒ néng zài nǎ lǐ chéng shàng jī chǎng bā shì?

Where do I get an airport bus?

这辆巴士可以载五十个人。zhè liàng bā shì kě yǐ zài wǔ shí gè rén。

This bus can hold fifty people.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 巴士.

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

Directly before

  • 在巴士6
  • 了巴士4
  • 这辆巴士4
  • 乘巴士3
  • 观光巴士3

Directly after

  • 巴士上7
  • 巴士就2
  • 巴士吧2
  • 巴士去2
  • 巴士会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 巴士

What does 巴士 mean in Chinese?

巴士 (bāshì) means bus (loanword).

How do you pronounce 巴士?

巴士 is pronounced bāshì.

Is 巴士 an HSK word?

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

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