飞机
airplane
HSK level
- Pinyin
- fēijī
- Part of speech
- noun
- Level
- HSK 1
- Strokes
- 9
- Register
- neutral
- Measure word
- 架 / 班
- In episodes
- 5
Stroke order for 飞机
飞机 is written with 9 strokes (飞: 3, 机: 6). The animation replays automatically.
What does 飞机 mean?
飞机 (fēijī) is the everyday word for 'airplane,' literally 'flying machine.'
It covers commercial jets, private planes, and small aircraft; context (or compounds like 客机 'passenger plane' and 战斗机 'fighter jet') narrows the meaning. The verb pair learners need to memorize is 坐飞机 (zuò fēijī), 'travel by plane' — literally 'sit a plane,' the same 坐 used for buses and trains, not 飞 or 开.
The airport is 飞机场 (fēijīchǎng), more commonly shortened to 机场 (jīchǎng). The standard measure word is 架, used for most aircraft and large mechanical equipment.
Character by character
Memory hook: 飞 (fly) + 机 (machine) = flying machine. Same 机 appears in 手机 (phone) and 电脑 → 机 broadly means 'machine/device.'
Hear 飞机 in real episodes
飞机 appears in 5 Fluentide podcast episodes at natural native speed, 4 of them below. Each sentence plays at the easiest difficulty it exists in — switch it to hear the same moment at your level, with full pinyin and English throughout.
你喜欢飞机吗？
Do you like planes?
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九月二十七号，平平和福双坐飞机，去了美国。
On September 27, Ping Ping and Fu Shuang took a plane to America.
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是飞机吗？
Is it a plane?
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有的人，坐飞机来。
Some people even fly here.
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Example sentences
我明天坐飞机去北京。
Wǒ míngtiān zuò fēijī qù Běijīng.
I'm flying to Beijing tomorrow.
spoken
飞机几点起飞？
Fēijī jǐ diǎn qǐfēi?
What time does the plane take off?
neutral
他没坐过飞机。
Tā méi zuò guo fēijī.
He has never been on a plane.
spoken
飞机票很贵。
Fēijī piào hěn guì.
Plane tickets are expensive.
neutral
Common phrases with 飞机
Synonyms
客机 specifically means 'passenger plane' (客 = passenger). Use 客机 in news or aviation contexts; 飞机 is the everyday word that covers all aircraft.
Don't confuse 飞机 with
Frequently asked questions
Related words from the same episodes
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