Meaning of 机动车
Definitions from CC-CEDICT.
- motor vehicle
How to use 机动车
机动车 is a formal word you see on road signs, traffic laws, and insurance papers. In daily speech people usually just say 车 (chē) or 汽车 (qìchē). Example: 机动车不能停在这里。(Jīdòngchē bù néng tíng zài zhèlǐ.) Motor vehicles cannot park here.
Break it into three parts: 机 (jī) machine, 动 (dòng) move, 车 (chē) vehicle. A 机动车 is a vehicle that moves by machine power, so it has an engine.
Common mistake: Learners sometimes use 机动车 in casual talk, like 我买了一辆机动车, which sounds stiff and official. Say 我买了一辆车 (Wǒ mǎi le yí liàng chē) instead. Also keep 机 in the first tone, jī, not jǐ.
机动车 in example sentences
Real sentences from the Tatoeba project, with pinyin and English.
Stroke order for each character
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机 jī · desk · 6 strokes
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动 dòng · to move · 6 strokes
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车 chē · car · 4 strokes
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Related words
Words that share a character with 机动车.
| 飞机 | fēijī | airplane |
| 开车 | kāichē | to drive a car (or train etc); (slang) to post sexual content online; to make a sexual jok |
| 手机 | shǒujī | cell phone; mobile phone |
| 火车 | huǒchē | train |
| 上车 | shàng chē | to get on or into (a bus, train, car etc) |
| 动作 | dòngzuò | movement; motion; action; to act; to move |
| 汽车 | qìchē | car; automobile |
| 机场 | jīchǎng | airport; airfield; (slang) service provider for Shadowsocks or similar software for circum |
| 下车 | xià chē | to get off or out of (a bus, train, car etc) |
| 车上 | chē shang | |
| 车站 | chēzhàn | rail station; bus stop |
| 机票 | jīpiào | plane ticket; airline ticket |
Questions about 机动车
What does 机动车 mean?
机动车 (jīdòngchē) means "motor vehicle" and is used as a noun.
How do you write 机动车?
机动车 is made of 3 characters: 机 (6 strokes), 动 (6 strokes), 车 (4 strokes). That is 16 strokes in total.
Is 机动车 an HSK word?
Yes. 机动车 is on the HSK 6 vocabulary list of the HSK 3.0 standard.
How is 机动车 written in traditional Chinese?
In traditional characters, 机动车 is written 機動車.
Is a bicycle or electric scooter a 机动车?
A regular bicycle is not. It is a 非机动车 (fēi jīdòngchē), a non-motor vehicle. Road signs often separate lanes for 机动车 and 非机动车.
What measure word goes with 机动车?
Use 辆 (liàng), the same measure word as for other vehicles. For example, 一辆机动车 (yí liàng jīdòngchē) means one motor vehicle.