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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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