行车记录仪

行車記錄儀

xíngchējìlùyí

noun

Measure Word

一台行车记录仪 tái

Meanings

1 dashcam
2 vehicle data recorder

Characters

to travel / to go

instrument / device

Examples

幸亏装了行车记录仪，不然这事说不清。

Xìngkuī zhuāng le xíngchē jìlùyí, bùrán zhè shì shuō bu qīng.

Lucky we had a dashcam — otherwise we couldn't have proved what happened.

新车一般都自带行车记录仪。

Xīn chē yìbān dōu zì dài xíngchē jìlùyí.

New cars usually come with a built-in dashcam.

Tips

culture

Dashcams are near-universal in Chinese cars — driven partly by widely circulated cases of 碰瓷 (staged accidents to extort drivers), where a 行车记录仪 video is the standard defense. Insurers and traffic police treat dashcam footage as primary evidence.

Stroke Order

行 xíng

车 chē

记 jì

录 lù

仪 yí