郊区 jiāoqū▶ ชานเมือง

Stroke order

郊区 is written in 12 strokes across 2 characters.

• 郊 — 8 strokes
• 区 — 4 strokes

Example sentences

• 他们住在郊区。Tāmen zhù zài jiāoqū.They live in the suburbs.
• 郊区的房子比较便宜。Jiāoqū de fángzi bǐjiào piányi.Houses in the suburbs are relatively cheap.

Related words

• 区别ความแตกต่าง
• 地区ภูมิภาค
• 区分แยกแยะ
• 区域ภูมิภาค
• 社区ชุมชน

郊区 is pronounced jiāoqū and means “ชานเมือง”. You will meet it in HSK 4, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 郊区 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.