飞机
fēi jī
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 飛機
An aeroplane, the machine that carries people and goods through the air. To fly somewhere as a passenger is 坐飞机, and the airport is 机场 (jīchǎng). Only the pilot 开飞机, 'flies the plane'.
Máy bay: phương tiện chở người và hàng hoá bay trên không. Đi máy bay là 坐飞机, sân bay là 机场 (jīchǎng); còn phi công lái máy bay thì nói 开飞机.
NounRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “phi cơ” (phi-co). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Equivalents & related
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Common questions
What does “飞机” mean?
An aeroplane, the machine that carries people and goods through the air. To fly somewhere as a passenger is 坐飞机, and the airport is 机场 (jīchǎng). Only the pilot 开飞机, 'flies the plane'. Literally: flying machine
Is “飞机” formal or informal?
飞机 is generally neutral.