4S店

4Sdiàn
noun

Measure Word

一家4S jiā

Meanings

  1. 1 authorized car dealership (offering Sales, Spare parts, Service, Surveys)
  2. 2 full-service car dealership

Examples

Wǒ xiàwǔ yào qù 4S diàn bǎoyǎng chē.
This afternoon I'm going to the 4S dealership to service my car.
Xīnchē shì cóng 4S diàn mǎi de.
The new car was bought from a 4S dealership.

Tips

culture
The four S's: Sale (销售), Spare parts (配件), Service (售后服务), Survey (信息反馈). The model arrived in China around 1998 with Guangzhou Honda and is now standard for any official-brand car dealership.
usage
Read aloud as 'four S diàn' — say the digit 4 in Mandarin (sì) and the letter S in English. Pure-letter brand abbreviations (KTV, ATM, X) follow the same letter-as-English convention in spoken Chinese.

Stroke Order

diàn