電單車 (din6 daan1 ce1 | ) : motorcycle

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電單車

din6 daan1 ce1

motorcycle; motorbike | Note: 電單車 is the standard written Chinese term for "motorcycle" in HK, Malaysia & Singapore; and is also used in spoken Mandarin in Malaysia & Singapore. In Taiwan the term is 機車, and mainland China uses 摩托車.

Level: 3 Google Frequency: 270,000

This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

電單車

This word has been viewed 3783 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by radagasty on 14th Jul 2004 02:25 and last edited on 30th Oct 2008 19:03

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Characters in this word:

電 din6 - lightning; electricity
單 daan1 sin6 sin4 - single; odd number; simple; list; only
車 ce1 geoi1 - cart; vehicle; car

1 compounds containing this word:

水上電單車 - jet ski

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