貨車

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: Written 貨車 and read かしゃ, it denotes an individual railway car designed to carry freight rather than passengers.
• Basic usage: It appears as an old car standing at a station and as a model car loaded with wooden boxes.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Car rather than entire freight train
  • The word usually identifies one freight-carrying vehicle within a train.