泊车

泊車
bóchē
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 to park (a car)

Examples

HSK 4
Jiǔdiàn ménkǒu yǒu zhuānmén de rén bāng kèren bóchē.
At the hotel entrance there is staff to park guests' cars.
HSK 5
Zhè liàng xīn chē néng zìjǐ bóchē, sījī búyòng dòngshǒu.
This new car can park itself, so the driver doesn't have to lift a finger.

Tips

usage
泊 here is 'to moor a boat', not 泊 'lake'. The word came into Mandarin from Hong Kong Cantonese, where it is the ordinary word for parking and sounds close to English 'park'. Mainland speech says 停车; 泊车 lives on in 代客泊车 (valet parking) and 自动泊车 (self-parking).

Stroke Order

泊 bó
车 chē