放車
Appearance
Chinese
[edit]to release; to free; to let go to release; to free; to let go; to put; to place; to let out |
vehicle on land; car; machine vehicle on land; car; machine; to shape with a lathe | ||
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trad. (放車) | 放 | 車 | |
simp. (放车) | 放 | 车 |
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]放車
- (American (–1980) Taishanese, dated) to drive
Synonyms
[edit]References
[edit]- Lorraine Dong, Marlon K. Hom (1980) “Chinatown Chinese: The San Francisco Dialect”, in Amerasia[1]: “[…] to drive is now 揸車 / 揸车 (C) ja-che or 駛車 / 驶车 (C) sai-che instead of 放車 / 放车 (T) fong-che.”