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自行车zì xíng chē

bicycle
Definitions
Chinese > English | ||
自行车 | zìxíngchē | |
1. n. bicycle; bike | ||
自行車 頭盔 - bicycle helmet | ||
騎 自行車 - to ride a bicycle | ||
English > Chinese | ||
bicycle | ||
1. 自行車 | ||
Components | ||
自 | zì | |
1. self, oneself; one's own | ||
自顧自 - each minding his own business; each for himself | ||
2. certainly, of course | ||
3. personally | ||
4. since; from | ||
自 左 而 右 - from left to right | ||
行 | xíng | |
1. usage. 行 itself is also used as a radical (in addition to 彳); unusually for radicals, the phonetic is placed in the middle – with 彳 on the left and 亍 on the right – corresponding to the phonetic originally b | ||
2. (literary or dialectal) to walk | ||
3. to go; to move | ||
4. to carry out; to execute | ||
5. to perform (a salute) | ||
6. OK; good | ||
行,就 這麼 定 了。 - OK, it's a deal. | ||
7. to be good; to work | ||
我 覺得 這 方法 行。 - I think this will work. | ||
8. to be good (opposed to bad) (usually in negative sentences, or with (m, zh, 還)) | ||
我 成績 不 行。 - I have bad grades. | ||
9. to be able to do something (usually mentioned before) | ||
10. =====Usage notes===== | ||
11. Notice that when meaning “be able to do something”, 行 can only be used without a complement. This is different fromto be able to (do something). | ||
12. profession; industry; trade; business | ||
13. place for specific transaction | ||
銀行háng - bank lit. money store | ||
珠寶行háng - jewellery store | ||
14. line of objects; row | ||
15. behaviour; conduct | ||
16. skill from monk training | ||
道行héng - monk training | ||
17. Only used in 樹行子 (row of trees) | ||
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 | ||
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Pronunciation
zì xíng chē
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