Before the fire engine arrived, the whole house had burnt down.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
消防车
fire engine
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
fire engine
02
fire truck
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 消防车 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 消防车 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
This onlooker almost got in the way of the fire truck.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 消防车.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 消防车.
Directly before
- 把消防车1
Directly after
- 消防车到达1
- 消防车的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 消防车
What does 消防车 mean in Chinese?
消防车 (xiāofángchē) means fire engine.
How do you pronounce 消防车?
消防车 is pronounced xiāofángchē.
Is 消防车 an HSK word?
消防车 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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