打车
Meaning
- to take a taxi (in town)
- to hitch a lift
Example sentence
我们打车去吧！
Let's catch a taxi!
Characters in 打车
- 打 dǎ a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打伞 "to hold an umbrella", 打电话 "to make a phone call", 打针 "to get an injection", 打手套 "to knit gloves", 打气 "to inflate")
- 车 chē car
打 to strike plus 车 vehicle. 打 is the most overworked verb in the language, and here it means to hail a taxi.