ตำรวจ จรา จร
“ตำรวจ จรา จร” (тамруат чара чон) — traffic police in Thai. Noun, level B1. The familiar police plus the familiar traffic: there is no separate force — this is its road post. They stop most often to check the license. In a live sentence: “ตำรวจ จรา จร ยืน ที่ หน้า ทาง” — The traffic police are standing ahead on the road. Written with the characters ต, ำ, ร, ว, จ, จ, ร, า, จ, ร. A word from the everyday Thai course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Thai | ตำรวจ จรา จร |
| Read in Latin letters | тамруат чара чон |
| Translation | traffic police |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
The familiar police plus the familiar traffic: there is no separate force — this is its road post. They stop most often to check the license
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
- ตำรวจ จรา จร ยืน ที่ หน้า ทางтамруат чара чон мын ти наа таангThe traffic police are standing ahead on the road
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “traffic police” in Thai?
«ตำรวจ จรา จร», read “тамруат чара чон”. In a live sentence: “ตำรวจ จรา จร ยืน ที่ หน้า ทาง” — The traffic police are standing ahead on the road. Noun, level B1; written with the characters ต, ำ, ร, ว, จ, จ, ร, า, จ, ร.
How is “ตำรวจ จรา จร” written in Latin letters?
тамруат чара чон. This is a practical spelling — you need it to read aloud and be understood, not to meet an academic standard.
Why does this word look the way it does?
The familiar police plus the familiar traffic: there is no separate force — this is its road post. They stop most often to check the license. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.