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Mythic Mandarin

停车位 (tíng chē wèi): meaning and stroke order

停车位 (tíng chē wèi) means parking space; parking spot.

停车位

Simplified
停车位
Traditional
停車位
Pinyin
tíng chē wèi

Stroke order of 停车位

停

  • tíng to stop; to halt
  • 11 strokes

Stroke by stroke

车

  • Chē surname Che
  • chē car; vehicle
  • jū war chariot (archaic); rook (in Chinese chess)
  • 4 strokes
  • Traditional form: 車

Stroke by stroke

位

  • wèi position; location
  • 7 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 停车位

  1. tíng chē wèi Traditional 停車位
    • parking space; parking spot

Radicals of the characters

停
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 11 strokes · 亻 on the left, 亭 on the right
车
Radical 车 (Kangxi radical 159) in its simplified form · 4 strokes
位
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 7 strokes · 亻 on the left, 立 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.

停车位 in our stories

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  • “这个小区有两千多辆车，停车位却只有八百个。每天晚上，路边和人行道上都停满了车，救护车有时候都开不进来。”

    zhè gè xiǎoqū yǒu liǎngqiān duō liàng chē tíngchēwèi què zhǐ yǒu bābǎi gè měitiān wǎnshang lùbiān hé rénxíngdào shàng dōu tíngmǎn le chē jiùhùchē yǒushíhou dōu kāi bú jìnlai

    "This neighbourhood has over two thousand cars but only eight hundred parking spaces. Every evening the roadsides and pavements are full of cars, and sometimes even ambulances can't get in."

    From the story The market hearing HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 停车位

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).