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鐵馬
鐵馬
See also: 铁马
Chinese
| iron | horse | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (鐵馬) | 鐵 | 馬 | |
| simp. (铁马) | 铁 | 马 | |
| Literally: “iron horse”. | |||
Noun
鐵馬
- (literary) armoured warhorse
- (literary) valiant cavalry
- (literary) metal chimes hanging from eaves
- (chiefly Taiwanese Mandarin and Taiwanese Min Nan) bicycle
- (chiefly Cantonese) crowd control barrier
Synonyms
| Dialectal synonyms of 自行車 (“bicycle”) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Variety | Location | Words |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 自行車 | |
| Mandarin | Beijing | 自行車兒 |
| Taiwan | 腳踏車、自行車、單車、鐵馬 | |
| Jinan | 自行車、車子 | |
| Xi'an | 自行車 | |
| Wuhan | 腳踏車、線車 | |
| Chengdu | 自行車、洋馬兒 | |
| Yangzhou | 腳踏車 | |
| Hefei | 腳踏車 | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 單車 |
| Hong Kong | 單車 | |
| Taishan | 單車 | |
| Yangjiang | 單車 | |
| Gan | Nanchang | 腳踏車 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 單車、自行車、腳車 |
| Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 自行車、腳踏車 | |
| Liudui (S. Sixian) | 自行車、腳踏車、自轉車 | |
| Hsinchu (Hailu) | 自行車、腳踏車 | |
| Dongshi (Dabu) | 自行車、腳踏車、鐵馬 | |
| Zhuolan (Raoping) | 自行車、腳踏車 | |
| Yunlin (Zhao'an) | 鐵馬 | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 車子、自行車 |
| Min Bei | Jian'ou | 腳踏車 |
| Min Dong | Fuzhou | 跤踏車 |
| Min Nan | Quanzhou | 跤踏車 |
| Xiamen | 跤踏車、孔明車 dated | |
| Zhangzhou | 跤踏車、孔明車 dated | |
| Taipei | 孔明車、自輪車、跤踏車 | |
| Kaohsiung | 自轉車、動輪車、跤踏車 | |
| Tainan | 自輪車、自轉車、動輪車、跤踏車、鐵馬 | |
| Taichung | 鐵馬、跤踏車 | |
| Yilan | 自轉車、跤踏車、鐵馬 | |
| Lukang | 自轉車、鐵馬 | |
| Sanxia | 跤踏車 | |
| Kinmen | 跤踏車、孔明車 | |
| Magong | 跤踏車 | |
| Hsinchu | 自輪車、跤踏車、鐵馬 | |
| Malaysia | 跤車、跤踏車、basikal | |
| Chaozhou | 跤車 | |
| Wu | Shanghai | 腳踏車、自行車 |
| Suzhou | 腳踏車 | |
| Wenzhou | 踏腳車、腳踏車 | |
| Xiang | Changsha | 單車、線車、腳踏車 |
| Shuangfeng | 單車、線車子 | |
References
- (Min Nan) “Entry #13183”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.