Roller coaster in Chinese (Mandarin): 过山车 (guòshānchē)
过山车
guòshānchē
roller coaster
- Simplified
- 过山车
- Traditional
- 過山車
- Pinyin
- guòshānchē
- Typed as
- guoshanche
In Taiwan, people say 雲霄飛車 (yúnxiāofēichē) instead.
Use it in a sentence
过山车跑得好快！
過山車跑得好快！
The roller coaster is so fast!
The characters in 过山车
过 / 過
To pass, to go across.
6 strokes
山
Mountain.
3 strokes
车 / 車
Vehicle, car.
4 strokes
过山车 is a "car that goes over mountains": a roller coaster. In Taiwan it is 云霄飞车 (yúnxiāo fēichē), a "car flying to the clouds".
More examples with 过山车
我第一次坐过山车。
我第一次坐過山車。
Wǒ dì-yī cì zuò guòshānchē.
I rode a roller coaster for the first time.
过山车上的人都在大叫。
過山車上的人都在大叫。
Guòshānchē shang de rén dōu zài dà jiào.
Everyone on the roller coaster is screaming.
How to write 过山车 in Chinese
Each box adds one stroke, in red. Write them in this order.
过 6 strokes
山 3 strokes
车 4 strokes
In Traditional characters:
過 12 strokes
車 7 strokes
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