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私人车道sī rén chē dào
driveway
Definitions
| English > Chinese | ||
| driveway | ||
| 1. 名词. 車庫門前的小路，一般用來停車 | ||
| Components | ||
| 私 | sī | |
| 1. self; personal; private | ||
| 私人 - personal | ||
| 私有 - private | ||
| 2. selfish | ||
| 自私 - selfish | ||
| 人 | rén | |
| 1. usage. In print, 人 may have symmetric legs. However in handwriting, to distinguish from 入, the right leg will be shorter, the shape looking like a ʎ; in 入 the left leg is shorter. | ||
| 2. man; person; people | ||
| 3. human being (Homo sapiens) | ||
| 4. body | ||
| 5. everybody; everyone | ||
| 6. physical, psychological or moral quality or condition; character; personality | ||
| 7. a person associated with a particular identity or trait; -er | ||
| 8. manpower; worker; employee | ||
| 车 | chē | |
| 1. vehicle; car | ||
| 2. machine; instrument | ||
| 3. to tailor or sew using a sewing machine | ||
| 車衫 - to sew clothes with a sewing machine | ||
| 4. (Cantonese) to drive somebody; to give somebody a ride | ||
| 你 可 唔 可以 車 我 去 地鐵 站 呀？ - Can you drive me to the MTR station? | ||
| 5. (Sichuanese) to rotate | ||
| 6. usage. 車 is a collective term for all types of vehicles with wheel(s). Additional morphemes are added in front to specify the type of the vehicle. For example: | ||
| 汽車 - car | ||
| 火車 - train | ||
| 自行車 - bicycle | ||
| 嬰兒車 - pram | ||
| 7. (Chinese chess) chariot; rook | ||
| 道 | dào | |
| 1. way, path, road | ||
| 道路 - road | ||
| 2. (historical) a circuit: an administrative division of late imperial China comprising 2 or more commanderies | ||
| 3. method, principle | ||
| 4. (philosophy) the Way, the Tao, the Dao: the way of nature and/or the ideal way to live one's life | ||
| 5. doctrine, teachings (of a religion) | ||
| 傳道 - to preach | ||
| 6. to say, to utter | ||
| 能說會道 - can talk really well idiom | ||
| 7. (Classifier for long things.) | ||
| 一道 閃電 - a lightning | ||
| 一道 河 - a river | ||
| 一道 縫 - a crack | ||
| 一 道 彩虹 - a rainbow | ||
| 8. (Classifier for barriers.) | ||
| 一道 籬笆 - a fence | ||
| 9. (Classifier for courses in a meal.) dish | ||
| 一 道 菜 - a dish of food | ||
| 10. (Classifier for questions (in an exam).) | ||
| 11. (Classifier for order, proclamation.) | ||
| 一 道 公文 - a proclamation | ||
| 一 道 命令 - an order | ||
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Pronunciation
sī rén chē dào
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