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): ㄔㄜ ㄏㄨㄛˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ce¹ wo⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhâ-fo
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chhia-hō / chhia-ěr

  (Teochew, Peng'im): cia¹ hua⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chēhuò
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄜ ㄏㄨㄛˋ
    • 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 Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhâ-fo
    • Hakka Romanization System: ca´ 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

1. 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

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