HSK 2 story

坐错车

zuò cuò chē

The Wrong Train

Anna gets on the wrong train one Saturday, her phone dies in a town she has never heard of, and a little noodle shop keeps bringing her back.

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Chapters
4
Characters
1,074
Reading time
16 min
Words in level
99.6%
HSK 2 words used
73
Glossed extras
1

Measured by script against the HSK 3.0 syllabus, names excluded.

Words to know before you start

The HSK 2 words this story uses most. Look at them once — the story will bring them back.

  • miàn

    noodles; face; side, surface

  • jiù

    (after a suppositional clause) in that case; then; (after a clause of action) as soon as

  • xiào

    to laugh; to smile; to laugh at

  • 车站

    chēzhàn

    rail station; bus stop

  • 外国

    wàiguó

    foreign country

  • cuò

    mistake; wrong; bad

  • 饭馆

    fànguǎn

    restaurant

  • to hold; to seize; to catch

  • 过去

    guòqù

    to go over; to pass by; (in the) past

  • 女孩儿

    nǚháir

    erhua form of 女孩

Chapters

  1. 1坐错车了On the wrong train293 characters
  2. 2小饭馆The little restaurant278 characters
  3. 3在安平的一个晚上A night in Anping237 characters
  4. 4每个月的星期六One Saturday a month266 characters

People and places

  • 安娜ĀnnàAnna, a foreign student
  • 老王Lǎo WángOld Wang, who runs a noodle shop
  • 芳芳FāngfāngFangfang, his daughter
  • 安平ĀnpíngAnping, a small town
  • 天河TiānhéTianhe, a city

Names are underlined in the text, so you can tell them from words.

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