驾驶 jiàshǐ▶ ขับ

Stroke order

驾驶 is written in 16 strokes across 2 characters.

• 驾 — 8 strokes
• 驶 — 8 strokes

Senses

1. to drive (vehicle); to pilot (ship, airplane etc)
2. driver; pilot; captain

Related words

• 劳驾ขอโทษ

驾驶 is pronounced jiàshǐ and means “ขับ”. You will meet it in HSK 5, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 驾驶 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.