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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 倒车

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
倒车 dǎo chē - to change buses, trains etc
倒车 dào chē - to reverse (a vehicle)
- to drive backwards

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- 4 13,235 20,488 15,719

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
dǎo- to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally
- to fail; to go bankrupt
- to overthrow
- to change (trains or buses)
- to move around
- to resell at a profit
dào- to invert; to place upside down or frontside back
- to pour out
- to tip out; to dump
- inverted; upside down; reversed
- to go backward
- contrary to what one might expect; but; yet
chē- surname Che
chē- car
- vehicle
- CL:輛|辆[liang4]
- machine
- to shape with a lathe
- Kangxi radical 159
- war chariot (archaic)
- rook (in Chinese chess)
- rook (in chess)

Other Words Containing 倒车

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
倒车 - 4 13,235 20,488 15,719
开倒车 - - 87,747 85,734 72,992