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daofeishi -

My teacher has taught me to write 汽车 for car/vehicle, but my Chinese friend consistently uses
气车 in his text messages. I can't find the latter in my dictionary, and I wonder whether it's a
little used variant, or just a mistake on his part.

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monto -

汽车 is right for car/vehecle.
In Chinese 汽 is vapor/ steam, all the ideas come from the steam engine invented by watt, though
things laterly seem have nothing to do with steam;

气： gas

pandaxiongmao -

It is laziness most likely. Same pinyin for 'qi'. The meanings of 气 (air) and 汽 (gas, vapor)
are similar, but not the same. 气 comes up before 汽 on my computer with pinyin input, if I
don't continue to type 'qiche' before converting.

I often get text messages where the pinyin of the characters tell me the meaning, but the
characters themselves are not correct. My friends do it for speed/laziness reasons.

daofeishi -

Hmmm... If I search for 气车 in www.dict.cn, I get the translation "bus." What's the reason for
that?

roddy -

see here

monto -

Quote:

Hmmm... If I search for 气车 in www.dict.cn, I get the translation "bus." What's the reason for
that?

Search result can not be considered as a evidence for rightness of any wording, because any
mistake we can find the reason logically thereof is there.

气车 mistake usually ocurs in Pinyin input while 五笔 input has different typo.

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