汽车
HSK 3 (exam 2025)HSK 1 (2021)
汽车 (qìchē) · car
汽车 (qìchē) means “car; automobile”. It is written with 2 characters: 汽 (steam) + 车 (vehicle). It is an HSK 3 word in the current exam syllabus (2025).
How 汽车 is built
The characters
汽 qì · steam
What 汽 is made of
- 氵shuǐ — water
- 气qì — air
- 亻rén — person
Origin hint: Liquid 氵 gas 气; 气 also provides the pronunciation (from the Make Me a Hanzi dataset; treat as a memory aid where history is uncertain)
车 chē · vehicle
What 车 is made of
- 七qī — seven
- 一 — horizontal stroke
- 乚 — hook stroke
- 十 — ten
- 一 — horizontal stroke
- 丨 — vertical stroke
Origin hint: Simplified form of 車, a cart with two wheels, seen from above (from the Make Me a Hanzi dataset; treat as a memory aid where history is uncertain)
Example sentences
我爸爸买了新汽车。Wǒ bàba mǎi le xīn qìchē.My dad bought a new car.
这是谁的汽车？Zhè shì shéi de qìchē?Whose car is this?
Questions about 汽车
What does 汽车 mean?
汽车 (qìchē) means “car; automobile”.
How do you pronounce 汽车?
汽车 is pronounced qìchē.
Which HSK level is 汽车?
汽车 is in HSK 3 (exam 2025) and HSK 1 (2021).
Related words
- 公共汽车gōnggòng qìchēbus
- 汽水qìshuǐsoda
- 汽油qìyóugasoline
- 车票chēpiàobus or train ticket
- 车上chēshàngon the bus
- 车站chēzhànstation
- 打车dǎchēto take a taxi
- 火车huǒchētrain
- 开车kāichēto drive
- 上车shàngchēto get on a vehicle
Learn 汽车 with its group
It is part of HSK 1 (2021) · Group 42: a short group with quick checks and spaced repeats.