放車

Chinese

		to release; to free; to let go to release; to free; to let go; to put; to place; to let out	vehicle on land; car; machine vehicle on land; car; machine; to shape with a lathe
trad. (放車)		放	車
simp. (放车)		放	车

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Verb

放車

1. (American (–1980) Taishanese, dated) to drive

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 開車 (“to drive (a vehicle)”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		開車, 駕車
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	開車
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	開車
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	開車
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	開車
	Wuhan	開車
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	開車
	Hefei	開車
Mandarin	Malaysia	駕車
	Singapore	駕車
Cantonese	Guangzhou	駛車, 開車, 揸車
	Hong Kong	揸車
	Taishan	駛車, 開車, 揸車
	Dongguan	揸車
	Yangjiang	駛車
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	揸車, 開車
	Penang (Guangfu)	揸車
	Singapore (Guangfu)	揸車
Gan	Nanchang	開車, 駕車
Hakka	Meixian	駛車
	Huizhou (Huicheng Bendihua)	駛車, 揸車
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	駛車仔, 駛車
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	駛車仔, 駛車
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	駛車仔, 駛車
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	駛車
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	駛車仔, 駛車
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	駛車
	Senai (Huiyang)	駛車
Jin	Taiyuan	開車
Northern Min	Jian'ou	開車
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	開車
Southern Min	Xiamen	開車, 捍車, 駛車
	Xiamen (Tong'an)	開車
	Quanzhou	開車, 捍車
	Jinjiang	開車
	Zhangzhou	開車, 捍車, 駛車
	New Taipei (Tamsui)	駛車, 開車
	New Taipei (Pingxi)	駛車, 開車
	Kaohsiung (Cijin)	駛車
	Kaohsiung (Dalinpu, Siaogang)	駛車, 開車
	Yilan (Toucheng)	駛車, 開車
	Tainan	駛車
	Tainan (Anping)	駛車, 開車
	Penghu (Xiyu)	駛車
	Penang (Hokkien)	捍車, 駛車
	Singapore (Hokkien)	捍車, 駛車
	Manila (Hokkien)	捍車
	Chaozhou	駛車, 開車
	Shantou	開車
	Jieyang	開車, 駛車
	Haifeng	開車, 揸車 dated
	Bangkok (Teochew)	駛車
	Singapore (Teochew)	捍車, 駛車
	Wenchang	駛車
	Qionghai	駛車
	Singapore (Hainanese)	駛車
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	揸車, 開車
Wu	Suzhou	開車
	Wenzhou	開車
Xiang	Changsha	開車
	Shuangfeng	開車子

References

• Lorraine Dong, Marlon K. Hom (1980) “Chinatown Chinese: The San Francisco Dialect”, in Amerasia‎^[1]: “[…] to drive is now 揸車／揸车 (C) ja-che or 駛車／驶车 (C) sai-che instead of 放車／放车 (T) fong-che.”