車本

Chinese

		vehicle on land; car; machine vehicle on land; car; machine; to shape with a lathe	roots or stems of plants; origin; source roots or stems of plants; origin; source; this; the current; root; foundation; basis; (a measure word)
trad. (車本)		車	本
simp. (车本)		车	本

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chēběn

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄜ ㄅㄣˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ce¹ bun²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chēběn
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄜ ㄅㄣˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cheběn
    • Wade–Giles: chʻê¹-pên³
    • Yale: chē-běn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chebeen
    • Palladius: чэбэнь (čɛbɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɤ⁵⁵ pən²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed) (車本兒／车本儿)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chēběnr
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄜ ㄅㄣˇㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cheběnr
    • Wade–Giles: chʻê¹-pên³-ʼrh
    • Yale: chē-běnr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chebeel
    • Palladius: чэбэньр (čɛbɛnʹr)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɤ⁵⁵ pəɻ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ce¹ bun²
    • Yale: chē bún
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tse¹ bun²
    • Guangdong Romanization: cé¹ bun²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɛː⁵⁵ puːn³⁵/

Noun

車本

1. (regional, colloquial) driving licence

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 駕駛執照 (“driving licence; driver's licence”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		駕駛執照, 駕駛證 Mainland
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	駕照, 駕證, 車本兒
	Taiwan	駕照, 駕駛執照
	Singapore	駕照, 駕駛執照
Cantonese	Guangzhou	車牌
	Hong Kong	車牌
	Taishan	車牌
	Kaiping (Chikan)	車牌
Hakka	Huizhou (Huicheng Bendihua)	車牌, 駕駛證
Jin	Taiyuan	車本兒
Southern Min	Tainan	駕駛執照, 駕照 GT
	Manila (Hokkien)	車頭字, 車字
	Wenchang	駕駛執照
Wu	Shanghai	駕照
	Wenzhou	駕駛證
Note	GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified)