空乘

kōngchéng

noun

Meanings

1 flight attendant
2 cabin crew
3 in-flight service

Characters

to ride; to travel by

Examples

HSK 4

她大学毕业后做了三年空乘。

Tā dàxué bìyè hòu zuò le sānnián kōngchéng.

After graduating from college, she worked as a flight attendant for three years.

HSK 6

她报考了航空学院的空乘专业。

Tā bàokǎo le hángkōng xuéyuàn de kōngchéng zhuānyè.

She applied to the cabin-crew major at the aviation college.

HSK 7-9

空乘正在为乘客分发饮料。

Kōngchéng zhèngzài wèi chéngkè fēnfā yǐnliào.

The cabin crew is distributing drinks to passengers.

Tips

usage

Short for 空中乘务员. 空乘 covers both the role and the major you study at airline academies. In casual speech, women may also be called 空姐 (air-sister) and men 空少 (air-young-man).

memory

空 (sky) + 乘 (ride / passenger) - literally sky-ride staff. The same 乘 reads chéng as in 乘客 (passenger), not shèng.

Stroke Order

空 kōng

乘 chéng