車頭
See also: 车头
Chinese
vehicle on land; car; machine vehicle on land; car; machine; to shape with a lathe |
head; (noun suffix) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (車頭) | 車 | 頭 | |
| simp. (车头) | 车 | 头 | |
Etymology
The Philippine Hokkien sense is possibly an ellipsis of 馬車頭 / 马车头 (bé-chhia thâu, “coachman; carriage driver”).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese
- Hakka
- Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): cia1 tao2
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien, POJ): chhia-thâu
- (Teochew, Peng'im): cia1 tao5
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: chētóu
- Zhuyin: ㄔㄜ ㄊㄡˊ
- Tongyong Pinyin: chetóu
- Wade–Giles: chʻê1-tʻou2
- Yale: chē-tóu
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chetour
- Palladius: чэтоу (čɛtou)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɤ⁵⁵ tʰoʊ̯³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: ce1 tau4
- Yale: chē tàuh
- Cantonese Pinyin: tse1 tau4
- Guangdong Romanization: cé1 teo4
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sʰɛː⁵⁵ tʰɐu̯²¹/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
- Wiktionary: cie1 heu3
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sʰiɛ³³ heu²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhâ-thèu
- Hakka Romanization System: caˊ teuˇ
- Hagfa Pinyim: ca1 teu2
- Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰa²⁴ tʰeu̯¹¹/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
- Hakka Romanization System: chaˋ teu
- Sinological IPA: /t͡ʃʰa⁵³ tʰeu⁵⁵/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Puxian Min
- (Putian)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: cia1 tao2 [Phonetic: cia5 lao2]
- Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: chia-táu
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sʰia⁵³³⁻¹¹ (tʰ-)lau¹³/
- (Xianyou)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: cia1 tao2 [Phonetic: cia5 lao2]
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sʰia⁵⁴⁴⁻²¹ (tʰ-)lau²⁴/
- (Putian)
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Tong'an, General Taiwanese, Philippines, Singapore)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhia-thâu
- Tâi-lô: tshia-thâu
- Phofsit Daibuun: chia'taau
- IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰia⁴⁴⁻³³ tʰau²⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou, Philippines): /t͡sʰia³³ tʰau²⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰia⁴⁴⁻²² tʰau¹³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰia⁴⁴⁻³³ tʰau²³/
- IPA (Xiamen, Tong'an, Singapore): /t͡sʰia⁴⁴⁻²² tʰau²⁴/
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: cia1 tao5
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshia thâu
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sʰia³³⁻²³ tʰau⁵⁵/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Tong'an, General Taiwanese, Philippines, Singapore)
Noun
車頭
- front of a vehicle
- (Hakka, Teochew, Mainland China and Taiwanese Hokkien, dated in Mainland China) bus stop; train station
- 1888, T. L. Stedman, K. P. Lee, A Chinese and English Phrase Book in the Canton Dialect, New York: William R. Jenkins Co., page 143:
- (Singapore Hokkien) bus interchange; bus terminal
- (Philippine Hokkien) driver; chauffeur
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 車站 (“(bus, train, etc.) station”) [map]
Dialectal synonyms of 司機 (“driver; chauffeur”) [map]
Descendants
Further reading
- “車頭”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.