The train is to arrive on time.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
电车
tram; streetcar
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
tram; streetcar
02
trolleybus
03
electric car
04
e-bike
05
(in the context of Japan) electric train
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 电车 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 电车 appears in 16 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
The tram leaves in 5 minutes.
I left my umbrella on the train.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 电车.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 电车.
Directly before
- 留在电车2
- 在电车2
- 的电车1
- 乘电车1
- 普通电车1
Directly after
- 电车上3
- 电车将1
- 电车到1
- 电车会1
- 电车五分钟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 电车
What does 电车 mean in Chinese?
电车 (diànchē) means tram; streetcar.
How do you pronounce 电车?
电车 is pronounced diànchē.
Is 电车 an HSK word?
电车 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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