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火车

huǒ chē

HSK 1 · word 158 of 3,000

Meaning

Measure word

列 liè or 节 jié or 班 bān or 趟 tàng

Example sentence

火车来了。

huǒ chē lái le

Here comes the train.

Characters in 火车

火 fire plus 车 vehicle. The name is the steam engine, and it has outlived the steam — 汽车 does the same with 汽 steam or vapour for a car.

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