車渠

Chinese

		vehicle on land; car; machine vehicle on land; car; machine; to shape with a lathe	big; stream or canal; drain big; stream or canal; drain; ditch
trad. (車渠)		車	渠
simp. (车渠)		车	渠

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): chēqú

(Zhuyin): ㄔㄜㄑㄩˊ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: chēqú
  - Zhuyin: ㄔㄜㄑㄩˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: checyú
  - Wade–Giles: chʻê¹-chʻü²
  - Yale: chē-chyú
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chechyu
  - Palladius: чэцюй (čɛcjuj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɤ⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰy³⁵/

Middle Chinese: tsyhae gjo

Rime
Character	車	渠
Reading #	2/2	1/1
Initial (聲)	昌 (24)	群 (30)
Final (韻)	麻 (100)	魚 (22)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	尺遮切	強魚切
Baxter	tsyhae	gjo
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕʰia/	/ɡɨʌ/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕʰia/	/ɡiɔ/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕʰia/	/ɡiɔ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cʰia/	/gɨə̆/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕʰia/	/ɡiɔ/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕʰĭa/	/ɡĭo/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡ɕʰi̯a/	/gi̯wo/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chē	qú
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ce¹	keoi⁴

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[t.qʰ](r)A [ɡ](r)a/

(Zhengzhang): /*kʰlja ɡa/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	車	渠
Reading #	1/2	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	chē	qú
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyhæ ›	‹ gjo ›
Old Chinese	/*[t.qʰ](r)A/	/*[ɡ](r)a/
English	chariot	canal
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	車	渠
Reading #	1/2	1/1
No.	1311	7042
Phonetic component	車	巨
Rime group	魚	魚
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	車
Old Chinese	/*kʰlja/	/*ɡa/

Noun

車渠

(literary) wheel
(literary) rut; groove
(literary) alternative form of 硨磲 / 砗磲 (chēqú)
(literary) a kind of alcohol drinkware

Proper noun

車渠

(historical) a state in modern southern Cambodia or southeastern Vietnam