車

See also 车, and 倝

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

simplified	车
traditional	車

Etymology

Ideogram (指事): it is derived from a pictogram of a carriage seen from above, with the long vertical stroke representing the axle, the central square representing the body of the carriage, and the top and bottom horizontal lines representing the wheels.

Note that 倝 (as in left part of 朝) is not derived from 車.

Han character

車 (radical 159 車+0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 十田十 (JWJ), four-corner 5000₆)

1. cart, vehicle
2. carry in cart

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/車
• 庫

References

• KangXi: page 1239, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38172
• Dae Jaweon: page 1712, character 34
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3511, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8ECA

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Cantonese

Hanzi

車 (simplified 车, Yale che1, geui1)

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Japanese

Kanji

車 (grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: しゃ (sha), きょ (kyo)
• Kun: くるま (kuruma)

Usage notes

Its kun reading may be used alone as a word. Its on reading is mainly used in many compounds like 電車 (でんしゃ densha) - train, and 自転車 (じてんしゃ jitensha) - bicycle.

Compounds

• 車輪 (しゃりん, sharin)
• 新車
• 自転車
• 電車

Noun

車 (counter -台, hiragana くるま, romaji kuruma)

1. a car; an automobile; a carriage; a cart
2. a wheel; a caster

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Korean

Hanja

車
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 차, 거 (revised: cha, geo, McCune-Reischauer: ch'a, kŏ, Yale: cha, ke)

• Name (hangeul): 수레()

1. (수레 차, sure-): cart; wheeled machinery

Compounds

• 汽車 (기차, gicha) train
• 自動車 (자동차, jadongcha) car, automobile
• 自轉車 (자전거, jajeongeo) bicycle
• 電車 (전차, jeoncha) electric train, tramcar
• 戰車 (전차, jeoncha) tank
• 風車 (풍차, pungcha) windmill

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Mandarin

Hanzi

車 (simplified 车, pinyin chē (che1), Wade-Giles ch'e¹, Yale che)

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ tʂʰə˥˥ ]

Noun

車 (traditional, Pinyin chē, simplified 车)

1. (Beginning Mandarin) vehicle; car
2. (Beginning Mandarin) machine; instrument

Use in Chinese

車/车 is a collective term for all types of vehicles with wheel(s). Prefix is added to specify the type of the vehicle. Here are the examples: 公共汽車(bus), 計程車/出租車(taxi), 火車(train), 自行車/腳踏車(bicycle), 貨車(lorry), 卡車(truck)

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ tɕy˥˥ ]

Noun

車 (traditional, Pinyin jū, simplified 车)

1. the black chariot/rook in Chinese chess

車

Compounds

• 車費
• 車輛

Related terms

• 俥

References

• "車" (in Mandarin). Guoyu Cidian On-line Mandarin Dictionary (國語辭典). URL accessed on 2008-04-05.
• 2007, Hanyu Da Cidian 3.0 (in Mandarin), Hong Kong: Commercial Press, ISBN 9789620702778:

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Min Nan

Pronunciation

• IPA: []

Noun

車 (traditional, POJ chhia)

1. overturn, push over, tip over; ship (via vehicle); sew (with a machine); bore (holes); wheeled vehicle;

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Vietnamese

Han character

車 (xa, xe, xơ, se, xế)