出租车
chū zū chē
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 出租車
A taxi: a car with a driver that you pay to take you where you want to go. 坐出租车 is 'to go by taxi', and everyday speech also says 打车 (dǎchē) for getting one. 出租 on its own means 'to hire out, to let'.
Tắc xi: xe có tài xế, trả tiền để được chở đến nơi mình muốn. 坐出租车 là “đi tắc xi”; khẩu ngữ còn nói 打车 (dǎchē) là “bắt xe”. Riêng 出租 nghĩa là “cho thuê”.
NounRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “出租车” mean?
A taxi: a car with a driver that you pay to take you where you want to go. 坐出租车 is 'to go by taxi', and everyday speech also says 打车 (dǎchē) for getting one. 出租 on its own means 'to hire out, to let'. Literally: rent-out car
Is “出租车” formal or informal?
出租车 is generally neutral.