台車

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 台車 is read as だいしゃ and is a noun for a wheeled cart used to move loads or for the bogie supporting a railway vehicle.
• Basic usage: Loading boxes onto a cart appears in 箱を台車に載せる, while inspecting a train's bogie appears in 列車の台車を点検する.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• A transport cart or a railway assembly
  • The surrounding object shows whether it means ordinary handling equipment or the wheeled assembly beneath a train car.
• Difference from 手押し車
  • Unlike the word specifically for a hand-pushed cart, this term also has the railway sense of a bogie.