How to say "truck" in Japanese
Choosing the right word
- nounCovers the road-vehicle sense of truck: a motor vehicle for carrying goods, what British English calls a lorry. The word for the trucks you see on the road.
- 台車だいしゃnounCovers truck in its non-road senses: a low wheeled cart for moving loads, as in a warehouse, and the bogie, the wheel assembly under a railroad car. Not the word for the road vehicle.
Use 「トラック」 for the road vehicle that carries goods; 台車 is for wheeled carts used to move loads and for the bogie, the wheel assembly under a railroad car.
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