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Mythic Mandarin

司机 (sī jī): meaning and stroke order

司机 (sī jī) means chauffeur; driver.

司机

Simplified
司机
Traditional
司機
Pinyin
sī jī

Stroke order of 司机

司

  • Sī surname Si
  • sī to take charge of; to manage
  • 5 strokes

Stroke by stroke

机

  • Jī surname Ji
  • jī (bound form) machine; mechanism; (bound form) aircraft
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 機

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 司机

  1. sī jī Traditional 司機
    • chauffeur; driver

Radicals of the characters

司
Radical 口 (Kangxi radical 30) · 5 strokes · built from 𠃌 and 𠮛
机
Radical 木 (Kangxi radical 75) · 6 strokes · 木 on the left, 几 on the right

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.

司机 in our stories

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  • 司机说：“你去医院做什么？”

    sījī shuō nǐ qù yīyuàn zuò shénme

    The driver says, "What are you going to the hospital for?"

    From the story Taking a taxi HSK 1

Stories using 司机

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).