Taxi in Chinese (Mandarin): 出租车 (chūzūchē)

Use it in a sentence

The characters in 出租车

• 出

  To go out.

  5 strokes

• 租

  To rent. 禾 (grain) is on the left, from the days when rent was paid in grain.

  10 strokes

• 车 / 車

  Vehicle, car. It began as a drawing of a cart.

  4 strokes

出租车 is a "rent-out vehicle". People also say 打车 (dǎ chē) for taking a taxi, and in Taiwan a taxi is often 計程車 (jìchéngchē).

More examples with 出租车

• 出租车是黄色的。

  出租車是黃色的。

  Chūzūchē shì huángsè de.

  The taxi is yellow.

• 我们叫了一辆出租车。

  我們叫了一輛出租車。

  Wǒmen jiào le yí liàng chūzūchē.

  We called a taxi.

How to write 出租车 in Chinese

Each box adds one stroke, in red. Write them in this order.