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.
- 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.
面
miàn
noodles; face; side, surface
就
jiù
(after a suppositional clause) in that case; then; (after a clause of action) as soon as
笑
xiào
to laugh; to smile; to laugh at
车站
chēzhàn
rail station; bus stop
外国
wàiguó
foreign country
错
cuò
mistake; wrong; bad
饭馆
fànguǎn
restaurant
拿
ná
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
People and places
- 安娜Ānnà — Anna, a foreign student
- 老王Lǎo Wáng — Old Wang, who runs a noodle shop
- 芳芳Fāngfāng — Fangfang, his daughter
- 安平Ānpíng — Anping, a small town
- 天河Tiānhé — Tianhe, a city
Names are underlined in the text, so you can tell them from words.