上汽

Shàngqì

popculture

Meanings

1 SAIC Motor (Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation)
2 abbr. for 上海汽车工业集团

Characters

Shanghai (上海)

automobile (汽车)

Examples

上汽是中国最大的汽车制造商之一。

Shàngqì shì Zhōngguó zuì dà de qìchē zhìzàoshāng zhī yī.

SAIC is one of China's largest automakers.

上汽与大众的合资厂在上海。

Shàngqì yǔ Dàzhòng de hézī chǎng zài Shànghǎi.

The SAIC-Volkswagen joint venture plant is in Shanghai.

Tips

culture

SAIC-VW (上汽大众, 1984) was China's first major foreign-JV carmaker and the reason so many Chinese taxis were Santanas through the 1990s. SAIC-GM followed in 1997, and SAIC's own brands MG, Roewe (荣威) and Maxus (大通) now export globally.

Stroke Order

上 shàng

汽 qì