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Do you use smartphone holder? There are various smartphone holders for different purposes. Let’s learn something about them in Chinese.

手機架shǒu jī jià Smartphone holder or smartphone rack. 車用手機架chē yòng shǒu jī jià, smartphone car mount or smartphone holder for car.

It’s used in the car, we say 車用chē yòng ，and it’s a smartphone holder，therefore we call it 車用手機架chē yòng shǒu jī jià 。There are other examples for this pattern. For bike(自行車zì xíng chē )，the pattern 自行車zì xíng chē +用yòng +noun， therefore we call it 自行車用手機架zì xíng chē yòng shǒu jī jià. 

For guitar? Guess how to say that in Chinese? Please use the pattern for this compound noun in previous examples. 吉他用手機架jí tā yòng shǒu jī jià smartphone holder for guitar. And this one? In Taiwan, 錄影lù yǐng  is the word for video-recording. In China, we say 錄像lù xiàng  for video-recording. 錄影/錄像用手機架lù yǐng/ lù xiàng yòng shǒu jī jià smartphone holder for video-recording.

我要裝車用手機架，這樣就不必多買一個GPS了wǒ yào zhuāng chē yòng shǒu jī jià zhè yàng jiù bú bì duō mǎi yí ge GPS le 。I need to install a smarphone car mount so that I don't have to buy an extra GPS. Itmeansthatthesmartphonecan serve as my GPS while I’m driving.

Do you selfie? Selfiestick自拍桿zì pāi gǎn /自拍架zì pāi jià  has become a necessity for people who selfie.  架jià means a rack to hold something onto the ground or surface，for example tripod for camera is called 腳架jiǎo jià or 三腳架sān jiǎo jià .

多數博物館禁用自拍桿duō shù bó wù guǎn jìn yòng zì pāi gǎn Most museums have banned selfie sticks.