車禍

See also: 车祸

Chinese

		vehicle on land; car; machine vehicle on land; car; machine; to shape with a lathe	disaster
trad. (車禍)		車	禍
simp. (车祸)		车	祸

Etymology

Compare Russian автокатастро́фа (avtokatastrófa, literally “auto-catastrophe”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): chēhuò

(Zhuyin): ㄔㄜㄏㄨㄛˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ce¹ wo⁶
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhâ-fo
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): chhia-hō / chhia-ěr

(Teochew, Peng'im): cia¹ hua⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: chēhuò
  - Zhuyin: ㄔㄜㄏㄨㄛˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: chehuò
  - Wade–Giles: chʻê¹-huo⁴
  - Yale: chē-hwò
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chehuoh
  - Palladius: чэхо (čɛxo)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɤ⁵⁵ xu̯ɔ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: ce¹ wo⁶
  - Yale: chē woh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tse¹ wo⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: cé¹ wo⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɛː⁵⁵ wɔː²²/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhâ-fo
  - Hakka Romanization System: ca^ˊ fo
  - Hagfa Pinyim: ca¹ fo⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰa²⁴⁻¹¹ fo⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese, Singapore)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhia-hō
  - Tâi-lô: tshia-hō
  - Phofsit Daibuun: chia'hoi
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Singapore): /t͡sʰia⁴⁴⁻²² ho²²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰia⁴⁴⁻³³ ho³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰia⁴⁴⁻³³ hɤ³³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhia-ěr
  - Tâi-lô: tshia-ěr
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰia³³ ə²²/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: cia¹ hua⁶
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshia huă
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰia³³⁻²³ hua³⁵/

Noun

車禍

car accident; traffic incident; car crash (Classifier: 場／场 c)
我昨天發生了車禍。 [MSC, trad.]
我昨天发生了车祸。 [MSC, simp.]
Wǒ zuótiān fāshēng le chēhuò. [Pinyin]
I was in a car accident yesterday.

急轉彎以避免撞到動物是造成車禍的主要原因。 [MSC, trad.]
急转弯以避免撞到动物是造成车祸的主要原因。 [MSC, simp.]
Jízhuǎnwān yǐ bìmiǎn zhuàng dào dòngwù shì zàochéng chēhuò de zhǔyào yuányīn. [Pinyin]
Swerving to avoid animals is a major cause of crashes.

Derived terms

連環車禍 / 连环车祸 (liánhuán chēhuò)

Verb

車禍

(figurative, slang) to go off-key; to train wreck in a music performance