Illustration: At a Japanese railway museum's hands-on exhibit, a parent and child examine a realistic passenger-train model with a distinct driving cab and several coupled carriages. Starting from the cab, the parent touches the third carriage while holding up three fingers with the other hand.

JLPT N2suffixLevel estimated by Bebop

号ごう車しゃ

gousha

train car number suffix

Example sentences

  1. 客扱きゃくあつかいは2号車ごうしゃのみのため、乗降じょうこうには問題もんだいない。

    This causes no problem, because passengers get on and off rapid trains using only the second car.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. 繁忙期はんぼうきには2号車ごうしゃと5号車ごうしゃの間あいだに3・4号車ごうしゃが増結ぞうけつされる。

    During busy seasons, between car nos. 2 and 5, two cars--nos. 3 and 4--are coupled.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. １号車ごうしゃ応答おうとうせよ

    Car 1, come in.

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

Kanji in 号車

  • 号nickname; numberOnゴウKunさけぶ・よびな
  • 車carOnシャKunくるま

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