Meaning of 车牌
Definitions from CC-CEDICT.
- vehicle license plate
How to use 车牌
车牌 is the everyday word for a license plate. It often appears in 车牌号 (chēpái hào), the plate number. Example: 你记住那辆车的车牌号了吗？ (Nǐ jìzhù nà liàng chē de chēpái hào le ma?) Did you remember that car's plate number?
车 (chē) means vehicle and 牌 (pái) means a sign or plate. Put them together and you get the plate with numbers that every car carries: 车牌.
Common mistake: Learners sometimes write 牌 with the 片 side wrong or confuse it with 啤 (pí) as in 啤酒, which has 口 on the left instead of 片. Also keep 牌 in second tone, pái, not fourth.
车牌 in example sentences
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Stroke order for each character
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车 chē · car · 4 strokes
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牌 pái · signboard · 12 strokes
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Related words
Words that share a character with 车牌.
| 开车 | kāichē | to drive a car (or train etc); (slang) to post sexual content online; to make a sexual jok |
| 火车 | huǒchē | train |
| 上车 | shàng chē | to get on or into (a bus, train, car etc) |
| 汽车 | qìchē | car; automobile |
| 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 |
| 车票 | chēpiào | ticket for a bus or train |
| 打车 | dǎchē | to take a taxi (in town); to hitch a lift |
| 停车 | tíngchē | to pull up (stop one's vehicle); to park |
| 出租车 | chūzūchē | taxi; (Tw) rental car |
| 自行车 | zìxíngchē | bicycle; bike |
Questions about 车牌
What does 车牌 mean?
车牌 (chēpái) means "vehicle license plate" and is used as a noun.
How do you write 车牌?
车牌 is made of 2 characters: 车 (4 strokes), 牌 (12 strokes). That is 16 strokes in total.
Is 车牌 an HSK word?
Yes. 车牌 is on the HSK 6 vocabulary list of the HSK 3.0 standard.
How is 车牌 written in traditional Chinese?
In traditional characters, 车牌 is written 車牌.
What is the measure word for 车牌?
Use 个 (gè) or 块 (kuài). 一块车牌 (yí kuài chēpái) is common because a plate is a flat piece.
How do you say someone got a new license plate in Chinese?
People often say 上车牌 (shàng chēpái) or 上牌 (shàng pái), meaning to register a car and get its plate. Example: 新车还没上牌。 (Xīn chē hái méi shàng pái.) The new car is not registered yet.