The Chinese word for bus is
公车

gong chē

Chinese Definition

Components
公
1. public; communal
Antonyms: 私
2. fair; equitable
3. to make public; to announce
4. international; universal
公海 - international waters
公里 - kilometer
公尺 - meter
5. duke
6. (of animals) male
Antonyms: 母
公雞 - rooster
7. (honorific) old man or a man of high status
^陳公 ^大-文之墓 - Tomb of Mr. Chen Dawen (written on a tombstone)
^蔣公 - Chiang Kai-shek (honorific form)
8. grandfather
9. father-in-law (husband's father)
公婆 - parents-in-law (husband's parents)
10. (Cantonese) heads (side of a coin)
11. (Hakka) (A noun suffix)
鼻公 - nose, H
貓公 (miau4 gung1) - cat, H-MX
车
1. Variant of 車
2. Variant of 卓

公共汽車
1. n. (chiefly Mandarin) public bus
2. n. (slang) town bicycle

公共汽车
1. Simplified form of 公共汽車

巴士
1. n. (regional) bus
機場巴士 - airport bus
他的車撞上了巴士。 - His car collided with the bus.

公車
1. n. (chiefly Taiwan) public bus
2. n. public vehicle; vehicle which is not privately owned
3. n. (Taiwanese Mandarin, Shanghainese Wu, by extension) a perverted girl; a town bicycle

公车
1. Simplified form of 公車

公交車
1. n. bus
坐公交車不小心坐過頭 - to miss one's stop on the bus
2. n. (slang) town bicycle

公交车
1. Simplified form of 公交車

公交
1. n. Short for 公共交通, public transport; public transit; public transportation
2. n. Short for 公交車, bus
你坐公交可以直接到。 - You can get there directly by bus.
你可害死我了，讓我坐公交不坐地鐵。 - You sent me to hell, telling me to take the bus instead of the subway.

公汽
1. n. (Mainland China) public bus

總線
1. n. (mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, computing) bus

总线
1. Simplified form of 總線

匯流排
1. n. (Taiwan, computing) bus

汇流排
1. Simplified form of 匯流排

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