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電車

電車

See also: 电车

Chinese

electric; electricity; electrical
 
vehicle on land; car; a vehicle; machine; to shape with a lathe
trad. (電車) 電 車
simp. (电车) 电 车

Noun

電車

  1. trolley; tram
  2. (Taiwan) electric multiple unit train

Japanese

電車 (densha): an electric multiple unit train.

Etymology

Kanji in this term
電 車
でん
Grade: 2 		しゃ
Grade: 1
on'yomi

電 ‎(den, “electric”) +‎ 車 ‎(sha, “vehicle”)

Pronunciation

Noun

電車 ‎(hiragana でんしゃ, romaji densha)

  1. an electric multiple unit train

Derived terms

  • 電車賃 (でんしゃちん) ‎(denshachin): tram-fare, railroad fare
  • 電車運転士 (でんしゃうんてんし) ‎(densha untenshi): train driver
  • 満員電車 (まんいんでんしゃ) ‎(man'in densha): full-crowded train

Descendants

References

  • 2000, Jonathan Bunt, Gillian Hall, The Oxford Starter Japanese Dictionary, First Edition, New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0198601972
  1. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. 1 2 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja in this term
電 車

Noun

電車 • ‎(jeoncha) ‎(hangeul 전차)

  1. Hanja form? of 전차, “streetcar, trolley, tram”.

Etymology

Wasei kango (和製漢語), from Japanese 電車 (でんしゃ) ‎(densha, “tram”)

Pronunciation

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