車渠

Chinese

		vehicle on land; car; machine vehicle on land; car; machine; to shape with a lathe	big; stream or canal; drain big; stream or canal; drain; ditch
trad. (車渠)		車	渠
simp. (车渠)		车	渠

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chēqú

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄜ ㄑㄩˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chēqú
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄜ ㄑㄩˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: checyú
    • Wade–Giles: chʻê¹-chʻü²
    • Yale: chē-chyú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chechyu
    • Palladius: чэцюй (čɛcjuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɤ⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰy³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyhae gjo

Rime
Character	車	渠
Reading #	2/2	1/1
Initial (聲)	昌 (24)	群 (30)
Final (韻)	麻 (100)	魚 (22)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	尺遮切	強魚切
Baxter	tsyhae	gjo
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕʰia/	/ɡɨʌ/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕʰia/	/ɡiɔ/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕʰia/	/ɡiɔ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cʰia/	/gɨə̆/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕʰia/	/ɡiɔ/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕʰĭa/	/ɡĭo/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕʰi̯a/	/gi̯wo/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chē	qú
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ce1	keoi4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[t.qʰ](r)A  [ɡ](r)a/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰlja  ɡa/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	車	渠
Reading #	1/2	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	chē	qú
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyhæ ›	‹ gjo ›
Old Chinese	/*[t.qʰ](r)A/	/*[ɡ](r)a/
English	chariot	canal
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	車	渠
Reading #	1/2	1/1
No.	1311	7042
Phonetic component	車	巨
Rime group	魚	魚
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	車
Old Chinese	/*kʰlja/	/*ɡa/

Noun

車渠

1. (literary) wheel
2. (literary) rut; groove
3. (literary) Alternative form of 硨磲／砗磲 (chēqú)
4. (literary) a kind of alcohol drinkware

Proper noun

車渠

1. (historical) a state in modern southern Cambodia or southeastern Vietnam