綠衣車
Chinese
| policeman; immigration official | vehicle on land; car; machine vehicle on land; car; machine; to shape with a lathe | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (綠衣車) | 綠衣 | 車 | |
| simp. (绿衣车) | 绿衣 | 车 | |
Pronunciation
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: luk6 ji1 ce1
- Yale: luhk yī chē
- Cantonese Pinyin: luk9 ji1 tse1
- Guangdong Romanization: lug6 yi1 cé1
- Sinological IPA (key): /lʊk̚² jiː⁵⁵ t͡sʰɛː⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Noun
綠衣車
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 警車 (“police car”) [map]
| Variety | Location | Words |
|---|---|---|
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 警車 | |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Taiwan | 警車 |
| Singapore | 警察車 | |
| Jilu Mandarin | Jinan | 警車 |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong | 警車 |
| Dongguan | 警車 | |
| Hakka | Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 警車 |
| Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) | 警車 | |
| Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) | 警車 | |
| Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) | 警車 | |
| Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) | 警車 | |
| Southern Min | Tainan | 警察車 |
| Singapore (Hokkien) | 馬打車 | |
| Singapore (Teochew) | 馬打車 | |
| Wu | Hangzhou | 老虎車, 警車 |
| Ningbo | 抲人車 | |
References
- Paul Lee Gyim [李壬] (1901) Chinese-English Elementary Reader and Arithmetic [英語尋源兼算學] (in Chinese), page 46