caa1 ce1叉車叉车
Jyutpingcaa1 ce1
Yalechā chē
Definition
Forklift; a small utility vehicle with a front-end metal fork used for lifting and moving palletized goods.
colloquialworktransport
How it's used
This term is strictly used for industrial machinery and is never used to describe any type of road vehicle. It is a loan translation from English, reflecting the specific design of the lifting mechanism. You will primarily hear this in logistics, shipping, and warehouse environments.
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bou6部bouhExamples
There is a forklift moving goods inside the warehouse.
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Common mistake
Do not confuse this with a standard vehicle or car, as it is specialized equipment that requires a specific license to operate in Hong Kong. Using it to refer to any other type of lifting device or construction vehicle is incorrect.
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Grammar guides
- Directional complementsThe small words added after a verb to show direction of movement, like up, down, out, in, and back. Common in everyday Cantonese.
- DemonstrativesThis and that with 呢 and 嗰, the personal pronouns, and how 哋 turns I, you, and he into we, you all, and they.
- Resultative complementsSticking a result word onto a verb to show how it turned out, like eat until full or look and find. A productive everyday pattern.
