火车头

火車頭

huǒchētóu

noun #25,872

Measure Word

一台火车头 tái

Meanings

1 locomotive
2 train engine
3 (figurative) driving force, engine of growth

Characters

vehicle, car, train

Examples

这台老式火车头已经有一百年历史了。

Zhè tái lǎoshì huǒchētóu yǐjīng yǒu yī bǎi nián lìshǐ le.

This old locomotive is already a hundred years old.

科技创新是经济发展的火车头。

Kējì chuàngxīn shì jīngjì fāzhǎn de huǒchētóu.

Technological innovation is the locomotive of economic development.

Tips

memory

火 is fire, 车 is vehicle/car, 头 is head — the fire-powered head of the train, a steam engine. The figurative meaning (driving force) flows naturally from this.

Stroke Order

火 huǒ

车 chē

头 tóu