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單車

简单车 · 繁單車

Mandarin · pinyin dān chē

(coll.) bicycle; bike (esp. in Hong Kong, Taiwan and southern China and, more generally, used across China to refer to a bike-share bicycle)

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單: Look up this written character
車: chē · cart, vehicle; carry in a cart; Kangxi radical 159
单: dān · single, individual, only; lone
车: chē · cart, vehicle; carry in cart

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1–1 · dan1 che1

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daan1 ce1

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noun

(archaic) single carriage
(regional) bicycle (Classifier: 輛／辆 m; 架 c; 部 c)

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