Chinese
巴士
/pä⁵⁵ ʂɻ̩⁵¹/
bus (Classifier: 輛／辆 m; 架 c; 部 c)
- HSK 4
- TOCFL 4
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Origin
Borrowed from English bus via Cantonese; for Taiwanese Hakka and Hokkien, via Japanese バス (basu) instead.
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Lineage
- characterChinese巴 “python (snake)”
- characterChinese士 “unmarried male; bachelor”
- borrowedEnglishbus “A motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads.”
- derivedEnglishomnibus “A bus (vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads).”
- borrowedFrenchomnibus
- partEnglishboy “A male child.”
- derivedEnglishbusboy “An assistant waiter; one who clears plates from and cleans tables.”
- suffixEnglish-er “A person or thing that does an action indicated by the root verb; used to form an agent noun.”
- derivedEnglishomnibus “A bus (vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads).”
Sources
- HSK / TOCFL word lists — Facts (levels)
- 教育部《國語辭典簡編本》 (Taiwan MOE) — CC BY-ND 3.0 TW
- Written form — n/a
- Wiktionary (via Wiktextract / kaikki.org) — CC BY-SA 4.0
- Wiktionary: 巴士