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Mythic Mandarin

乘客 (chéng kè): meaning and stroke order

乘客 (chéng kè) means passenger.

乘客

Simplified
乘客
Traditional
乘客 (same form)
Pinyin
chéng kè

Stroke order of 乘客

乘

  • Chéng surname Cheng
  • chéng to ride; to mount
  • shèng (archaic) four horse military chariot; (archaic) four
  • 10 strokes
  • Traditional form: 椉

Stroke by stroke

客

  • kè customer; visitor; guest; classifier for servings or portions (when ordering food)
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 乘客

  1. chéng kè
    • passenger

Radicals of the characters

乘
Radical 丿 (Kangxi radical 4) · 10 strokes · built from 禾 and 北
客
Radical 宀 (Kangxi radical 40) · 9 strokes · 宀 on top, 各 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

乘客 in our stories

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  • 一百年前的一个冬夜，客轮“海兴号”在离港口不远的海上沉没了，好在船上的乘客全部获救。

    yìbǎi nián qián de yí gè dōngyè kèlún Hǎixīng hào zài lí gǎngkǒu bù yuǎn de hǎi shàng chénmò le hǎozài chuán shàng de chéngkè quánbù huòjiù

    One winter night a hundred years ago, the passenger ship Haixing sank not far from port; fortunately all the passengers were rescued.

    From the story The storm that never was HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 乘客

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).