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Machines and Vehicles

chariot	車	ce1	bicycle	單車	daan1 ce1
motorbike	電單車	din6 daan1 ce1	bus	巴士	baa1 si2
car	汽車	hei3 ce1	train	火車	fo2 ce1
machine	機	gei1	aeroplane	飛機	fei1 gei1
telephone	電話	din6 wa2	computer	電腦	din6 nou5
mobile phone	手提電話	sau2 tai4 din6 wa6	laptop	手提電腦	sau2 tai4 din6 nou5
television	電視機	din6 si6 gei1	radio	收音機	sau1 jam1 gei1

Examples
我坐飛機去英國	I go by plane to England	ngo5 co5 fei1 gei1 heoi3 jing1 gwok3

Character Analysis

Notice how "telephone" (電話) is literally "electric speaking", train (火車) is "fire chariot" (think of steam engines), aeroplane (飛機) is "flying machine", radio is "receive sound machine" and television (電視機) is "electric seeing machine".

Also, 手=hand 提=carry 手提=portable 單 = single, alone

See the natural objects section for other examples of compound words.