xe hàng
Definition
- Noun:
- A goods vehicle / a freight vehicle: A vehicle, such as a truck or lorry, designed primarily for transporting cargo or merchandise.
- A bus / a coach (archaic or regional): In older or specific regional usage, it can refer to a public transport vehicle for passengers. This meaning is less common in modern standard Vietnamese.
Usage Examples
- Noun:
- Công ty mới mua một chiếc xe hàng cỡ lớn. (The company just bought a large freight truck.)
- Xe hàng chở đầy rau củ từ Đà Lạt về. (The goods truck is full of vegetables from Da Lat.)
- Ngày xưa, xe hàng là phương tiện di chuyển chính giữa các tỉnh. (In the old days, the bus was the main means of transport between provinces.)
Advanced Usage
- The term "xe hàng" is somewhat general. In modern logistics and daily speech, more specific terms are often preferred (e.g., for truck, for container truck).
- When used in the context of public transport, it is often understood from historical context and may be replaced by "xe khách" or "xe đò" in contemporary language.
Variants and Related Words
Xe tải (n): truck, lorry. The most common modern term for a goods vehicle.
- Xe tải bị cấm vào đường trung tâm thành phố. (Trucks are banned from the city center roads.)
Xe vận tải (n): transport vehicle. A more formal term.
- Xe khách (n): passenger coach, bus.
- Xe chở hàng (n): cargo vehicle. A descriptive phrase with the same meaning.
Synonyms
- Freight truck / Lorry: A motor vehicle designed to transport cargo.
- Goods vehicle: A general term for any vehicle used to transport goods.
- Bus (archaic): A large motor vehicle carrying passengers by road.
Related Idioms and Phrases
- Chạy xe hàng: to drive a goods truck/bus for a living.
- Ông ấy cả đời chạy xe hàng trên tuyến Bắc - Nam. (He drove trucks/buses on the North-South route all his life.)