Octopus card

短语

八达通

词形变化

Octopus cards 复数 Octopus cards

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A contactless smart card, introduced in 1997, used as a form of payment in Hong Kong, originally for the mass transit system, but now widely used for public transport and other retail transactions.

    八达通

词源

Coined in a naming competition. Like its Chinese counterpart 八達通 /八达通 (baat³ daat⁶ tung¹), it references the number eight, as an octopus has eight tentacles.

来源：wiktionary