坦克 meaning in English

tǎnkè

(loanword) tank (military vehicle); (derog.) (slang) overweight woman

HSK 7-9noun15 strokes

Meaning of 坦克

Definitions from CC-CEDICT.

tǎnkè
  1. (loanword) tank (military vehicle)
  2. (derog.) (slang) overweight woman

坦克 in example sentences

Real sentences from the Tatoeba project, with pinyin and English.

坦tǎn克kè是shì没méi有yǒu后hòu照zhào镜jìng的de。
Tanks don't have rearview mirrors.
坦tǎn克kè失shī踪zōng了le。
The tank vanished.

Stroke order for each character

Open a character for its meaning, components and more words.

坦 tǎn · flat · 8 strokes

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克 kè · to be able to · 7 strokes

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Related words

Words that share a character with 坦克.

千克qiānkèkilogram
克服kèfú(try to) overcome (hardships etc); to conquer
巧克力qiǎokèlì(loanword) chocolate
平坦píngtǎnlevel; even
坦白tǎnbáihonest; forthcoming
坦诚tǎnchéngcandid; frank
扑克pūkèpoker (game) (loanword); playing cards
克制kèzhìto restrain; to control
休克xiūkè(medicine) (loanword) shock; to go into shock
克隆kèlóng(biology) (loanword) to clone; a clone; (fig.) to make an identical copy of (a website etc
坦率tǎnshuàifrank; candid; straightforward
坦然tǎnráncalm; undisturbed

Questions about 坦克

What does 坦克 mean?

坦克 (tǎnkè) means "(loanword) tank (military vehicle); (derog.) (slang) overweight woman" and is used as a noun.

How do you write 坦克?

坦克 is made of 2 characters: 坦 (8 strokes), 克 (7 strokes). That is 15 strokes in total.

Is 坦克 an HSK word?

Yes. 坦克 is on the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list of the HSK 3.0 standard.