He raised his hand in order that the taxi might stop.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
的士
taxi (loanword)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
taxi (loanword)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 的士 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 的士 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
She got out of the taxi at the department store.
Hi, I need a taxi to come to the entrance of No.40, Lane 200, Huashan Road right now.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 的士.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 的士.
Directly before
- 了的士2
- 截的士1
- 一辆的士1
- 坐的士1
Directly after
- 的士去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 的士
What does 的士 mean in Chinese?
的士 (dīshì) means taxi (loanword).
How do you pronounce 的士?
的士 is pronounced dīshì.
Is 的士 an HSK word?
的士 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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